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 "id": "person/al-aswad-ibn-yafur",
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 "slug": "al-aswad-ibn-yafur",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأسود بن يعفر",
  "en": "al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "شاعر جاهلي من أهل نجران، صاحب القصيدة المشهورة في رثاء آل محرق التي مطلعها «ما ذا أومل بعد آل محرق تركوا منازلهم وبعد إياد»، وفيها ذكر أهل الخورنق والسدير ومأرب وقصر سنداد {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 229}.",
  "en": "A jahili poet of Najran, author of the celebrated elegy for the house of Muharriq opening 'what can I hope for after the house of Muharriq left their dwellings, and after Iyad', in which he named the folk of al-Khawarnaq, al-Sadir, Marib and the palace of Sindad {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p. 229}."
 },
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 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مسالك الأبصار (ط 1924) ص 229",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-geo-umari-5"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umari-masalik-1924"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الأسود بن يعفر شاعر جاهلي من أهل نجران، صاحب القصيدة المشهورة في رثاء آل محرق. ذكر فيها أهل الخورنق والسدير ومأرب وقصر سنداد. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.229}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-aswad-ibn-yafur",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur, a pre-Islamic poet from Najran, author of the well-known ode lamenting the family of Muharraq. In it he mentions the people of al-Khawarnaq and al-Sadir, Ma'rib and the palace of Sindad. {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.229}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-aswad-ibn-yafur",
    "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": "الاسود بن یعفر نجران کے رہنے والے جاہلی شاعر تھے، جن کا مشہور قصیدہ آلِ محرق کے مرثیے میں ہے۔ اس میں انہوں نے خورنق، سدیر، مآرب اور قصرِ سنداد کے باسیوں کا ذکر کیا ہے۔ {cite:umari-masalik-1924 p.229}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-aswad-ibn-yafur",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}