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 "id": "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "mutawakkil-damascus-residence",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عزم المتوكل على سكنى دمشق",
  "en": "Al-Mutawakkil's resolve to reside in Damascus"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ثلاث وأربعين قدم المتوكل إلى دمشق فأعجبته وبني له القصر بداريا وعزم على سكناها فقال يزيد بن محمد المهلبي إذا عزم الإمام على انطلاق فإن تدع العراق وساكنيه أظن الشام تشمت بالعراق فقد تبلى المليحة بالطلاق فبدا له ورجع بعد شهرين أو ثلاثة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}.",
  "en": "In 243 al-Mutawakkil came to Damascus, admired it, built a palace at Darayya and resolved to reside — Yazid al-Muhallabi versified 'if the imam resolves to depart, forsaking Iraq, I think Syria will gloat; the lovely woman is worn out by divorce' — he changed his mind and returned after two or three months {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 857.0024709610739,
  "latest": 858.0018070185929
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0857~",
   "hijri": "0243",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "243؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0857~",
   "hijri": "0243",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "243؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
  }
 },
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    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "243؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 538–541",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-28"
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  "sources": [
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 243هـ قدم الخليفة [[person/al-mutawakkil|المتوكل]] إلى دمشق فأعجبته. بُني له القصر بداريا وعزم على السكنى فيها. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}\n\nقال له يزيد بن محمد المهلبي أبياتاً يحذره فيها من ترك العراق وأن تشمت به الشام. فبدا له، ورجع بعد شهرين أو ثلاثة. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence",
    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 243 AH the caliph [[person/al-mutawakkil|al-Mutawakkil]] came to Damascus and liked it. A palace was built for him at Darayya and he resolved to live there. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The advice",
     "markdown": "Yazid ibn Muhammad al-Muhallabi recited verses to him warning him against leaving Iraq and against letting Syria gloat over him. He changed his mind, and returned after two or three months. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سن 243 ہجری میں خلیفہ [[person/al-mutawakkil|متوکل]] دمشق آیا تو وہ شہر اسے بھا گیا۔ داریا میں اس کے لیے محل بنایا گیا اور اس نے وہیں رہنے کا ارادہ کر لیا۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}\n\nیزید بن محمد المہلبی نے اسے چند اشعار کہے، جن میں اسے عراق چھوڑنے سے خبردار کیا گیا تھا اور اس بات سے کہ شام کے لوگ اس پر ہنسیں گے۔ اس پر اس کا ارادہ بدل گیا اور وہ دو تین ماہ بعد لوٹ آیا۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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 "related": [
  "event/al-mufarraj-fortresses",
  "event/al-qummi-buja-war",
  "event/bugha-pacification-armenia",
  "event/conquest-of-barah",
  "event/demolition-of-husayn-tomb",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/ghiyar-decree-235",
  "event/sack-of-damietta-238"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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