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  "ar": "علي بن أبي مقاتل"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من فقهاء المحنة، أجاب عند الامتحان بأن القرآن كلام الله وإن أمرنا أمير المؤمنين بشيء سمعنا وأطعنا، وأنكر عليه المأمون في كتابه قوله له إنك تحلل وتحرم {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 490-491}.",
  "en": "A mihna jurist who answered as Abu Hassan did — 'the Quran is God's speech, we hear and obey' — and al-Ma'mun's letter rebuked him for once telling the caliph 'you forbid and permit' {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 490-491}."
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 490–493",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-24"
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   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "علي بن أبي مقاتل من الفقهاء الذين امتُحنوا في [[event/mihna-of-the-quran|محنة القرآن]]. تذكر «تاريخ الخلفاء» للسيوطي أنه أجاب عند الامتحان بأن القرآن كلام الله، وأنه إن أمرنا أمير المؤمنين بشيء سمعنا وأطعنا. وفي كتاب المأمون إليه إنكار لقوله له إنك تحلّ وتحرّم. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.490-491}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ali-ibn-abi-muqatil",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ali ibn Abi Muqatil, one of the jurists who were tested in [[event/mihna-of-the-quran|the Mihna over the createdness of the Qur'an]]. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.490-491}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the test",
     "markdown": "Al-Suyuti says that when tested he answered that the Qur'an is the speech of God, and that if the Commander of the Faithful ordered us anything we would hear and obey. Al-Ma'mun's letter to him rebuked his saying to him, \"You permit and you forbid.\" {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.490-491}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ali-ibn-abi-muqatil",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "علی بن ابی مقاتل ان فقہا میں سے تھے جن کا [[event/mihna-of-the-quran|محنۂ قرآن]] میں امتحان لیا گیا۔ سیوطی کی «تاریخ الخلفاء» بتاتی ہے کہ امتحان کے وقت انہوں نے جواب دیا کہ قرآن اللہ کا کلام ہے، اور اگر امیر المؤمنین ہمیں کوئی حکم دیں تو ہم سنیں گے اور اطاعت کریں گے۔ مامون کے خط میں ان کے اس قول پر انکار کیا گیا کہ آپ حلال اور حرام ٹھہراتے ہیں {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.490-491}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ali-ibn-abi-muqatil",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-13",
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  "person/abu-hassan-al-ziyadi",
  "person/al-qawariri",
  "person/bishr-ibn-al-walid-al-kindi",
  "person/muhammad-ibn-nuh-al-ujli",
  "person/sajjada",
  "event/mihna-of-the-quran"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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