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  "en": "Hafsa bint Umar",
  "ar": "حفصة بنت عمر"
 },
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  "en": "A wife of the Prophet and daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab, remembered in Sunni tradition as the keeper of the collected Qur'anic codex.",
  "ar": "زوجة النبي وابنة عمر بن الخطاب، تُذكر في التقليد السني بحفظها المصحف الجامع. وعندها كانت صحف جمع أبي بكر، فأرسل إليها عثمان يستعيرها لتُنسخ في المصاحف ثم تُرد، وأرسلت بها {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4987}. وعند ابن عباس أنها وعائشة هما المرأتان اللتان تظاهرتا على النبي في خبر الاعتزال {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4914}."
 },
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 "themes": [
  "women",
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
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   "edtf": "0665",
   "hijri": "0045",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Sha'ban 45 AH (about October–November 665 CE). يذكر الكتاب أنها توفيت في شعبان سنة 45هـ ونزل في قبرها عبد الله وعاصم ولدا عمر (نساء حول الرسول ص83).",
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    "value": "حفصة بنت عمر بن الخطاب"
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   "edtf": "0665",
   "hijri": "0045",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Sha'ban 45 AH (about October–November 665 CE). يذكر الكتاب أنها توفيت في شعبان سنة 45هـ ونزل في قبرها عبد الله وعاصم ولدا عمر (نساء حول الرسول ص83).",
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   "companion",
   "scholar"
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    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
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   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625~"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "transmitter",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Kept the codex compiled under Abu Bakr until Uthman's recension; reports and hadith were taken from her.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md)."
   }
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   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11; Nisa' Hawl al-Rasul pp. 74-83 added by Devin (SWE-2 High), lib-nisa-hawl-rasul"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "حفصة بنت عمر زوجة النبي وابنة الخليفة الثاني. ويذكرها التراث السني قبل كل شيء حافظةَ المصحف الجامع الذي صُنعت منه النسخة المعتمدة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وُلدت نحو سنة 605م، وتزوجت صغيرة، ثم توفي زوجها الأول متأثرًا بجراحه بعد [[event/battle-of-badr|بدر]]، فتزوجها النبي نحو سنة 625م {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وعاشت في بيت النبوة بالمدينة حتى وفاته سنة 632م.\n\nجاء دورها الباقي لاحقًا. فلما جُمع القرآن في عهد [[person/abu-bakr|أبي بكر]] بعد ما فُقد من القرّاء في حروب الردة، أُودعت الصحف في الرواية المتعارفة حفصةَ؛ ولما أمر [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان]] بعد ذلك بمصحف جامع كان مصحفها أصله {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وتوفيت بالمدينة سنة 665م."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "بين الحفظ والكتاب، تقول الرواية إن النص مرّ ببيتها. وبهذا صارت حفصة شخصية هادئة مركزية في تاريخ القرآن كتابًا مكتوبًا."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "قبل المطابع لم تكن الكتب إلا صفحات قليلة مكتوبة باليد. حفظت حفصة صفحات القرآن في بيتها، والنسخ التي بين أيدينا اليوم ترجع إلى ما حفظت."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hafsa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Hafsa bint Umar was a wife of the Prophet and a daughter of the second caliph. Sunni tradition remembers her above all as the keeper of the collected Qur'anic codex — the copy from which the standard text was made."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Born about 605 CE, she married young, lost her husband to wounds after [[event/battle-of-badr]], and married the Prophet about 625 {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. She lived in the Prophet's household in Medina until his death in 632.\n\nHer lasting role came later. When the Qur'an was gathered under [[person/abu-bakr]] after the deaths of many reciters, the sheets were entrusted — in the traditional account — to Hafsa's keeping; when [[person/uthman-ibn-affan]] later ordered a standard recension, her copy was its base {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. She died in Medina in 665 CE."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Between memory and manuscript, the tradition says the text passed through her house. That makes Hafsa a quiet but central figure in the history of the Qur'an as a written book."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Before printing, books existed as a few handwritten pages. Hafsa kept the pages of the Qur'an safe in her home — and the copies we have today go back to hers."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hafsa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-11"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعارف",
     "markdown": "حفصہ بنتِ عمر، نبی کی زوجہ اور دوسرے خلیفہ کی بیٹی۔ اہلِ سنت کی روایت انہیں سب سے پہلے اس جامع مصحف کی محافظہ کے طور پر یاد کرتی ہے جس سے معتمد نسخہ تیار کیا گیا۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ تقریباً 605 عیسوی میں پیدا ہوئیں، کم عمری میں ان کا نکاح ہوا، پھر ان کے پہلے شوہر [[event/battle-of-badr|بدر]] کے بعد زخموں کے سبب فوت ہو گئے، تو نبی نے تقریباً 625 عیسوی میں ان سے نکاح کیا {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}۔ وہ مدینہ میں نبوی گھر میں رہیں یہاں تک کہ 632 عیسوی میں نبی کی وفات ہوئی۔\n\nان کا بقیہ کردار بعد میں سامنے آیا۔ جب ارتداد کی جنگوں میں قراء کی شہادتوں کے بعد [[person/abu-bakr|ابو بکر]] کے عہد میں قرآن جمع کیا گیا، تو مشہور روایت کے مطابق صحیفے حفصہ کے پاس رکھے گئے۔ پھر جب [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان]] نے اس کے بعد ایک جامع مصحف کا حکم دیا تو ان کا مصحف اس کی بنیاد بنا {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}۔ وہ 665 عیسوی میں مدینہ میں فوت ہوئیں۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "حفظ اور کتاب کے درمیان روایت بتاتی ہے کہ قرآن کا متن ان کے گھر سے گزرا۔ اس طرح حفصہ قرآن کی تاریخ میں، بطور لکھی ہوئی کتاب، ایک پُرسکون مگر مرکزی شخصیت بن گئیں۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "چھوٹے زائرین کے لیے",
     "markdown": "چھاپہ خانوں سے پہلے کتابیں ہاتھ سے لکھے چند صفحات ہی ہوتی تھیں۔ حفصہ نے قرآن کے صفحات اپنے گھر میں محفوظ رکھے، اور آج ہمارے ہاتھ میں موجود نسخے انہی کی حفاظت کی طرف لوٹتے ہیں۔"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/hafsa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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