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  "ar": "ابن الأعرابي أحمد بن محمد",
  "en": "Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad"
 },
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  "ar": "إمام محدّث حافظ ومؤرخ وزاهد وصوفي من أهل البصرة، من العلماء بالحديث والطبقات.",
  "en": "A hadith scholar, memorizer, historian and ascetic Sufi from Basra, learned in hadith and biographical classes."
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 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
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  "latest": 953.0017043470801
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0861",
   "hijri": "0246",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "tradition",
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   ]
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   "edtf": "0952",
   "hijri": "0340",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
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    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أحمد بن محمد بن زياد بن بشر بن درهم أبو سعيد الأعرابي"
   }
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   "muhaddith",
   "historian",
   "mystic"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0861",
   "hijri": "0246",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "0952",
   "hijri": "0340",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
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    ]
   }
  ],
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  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; Mawsuat A'lam vol 2 pp. 153, lib-mawsuat-a3lam"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء (أليكسو/دار الجيل 2004) ج2 ص153",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "lib-mawsuat-a3lam"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أحمد بن محمد بن زياد بن بشر بن درهم، أبو سعيد الأعرابي، إمام محدّث حافظ ومؤرخ وزاهد وصوفي من أهل البصرة، من العلماء بالحديث والطبقات. {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تواريخه",
     "markdown": "تذكر الموسوعة أنه ولد سنة 246هـ (861م) وتوفي سنة 340هـ (952م). {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153} هذه التواريخ من مصدر واحد، فهي تحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ibn-al-arabi-ahmad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn Bishr ibn Dirham, Abu Sa'id al-A'rabi, a hadith imam and memoriser, historian, ascetic and Sufi from Basra, a scholar of hadith and of the generations (tabaqat). {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Dates",
     "markdown": "The encyclopaedia says he was born in 246 AH (861 CE) and died in 340 AH (952 CE). {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153} These dates come from a single source, so they need an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ibn-al-arabi-ahmad",
    "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": "احمد بن محمد بن زیاد بن بشر بن درہم، ابو سعید الاعرابی، بصرہ کے ایک حافظ محدث، مؤرخ، زاہد اور صوفی امام تھے، اور حدیث و طبقات کے عالم تھے۔ {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تاریخیں",
     "markdown": "انسائیکلوپیڈیا بتاتا ہے کہ وہ 246ھ (861ء) میں پیدا ہوئے اور 340ھ (952ء) میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:mawsuat-a3lam-ulama-adaba p.153} یہ تاریخیں ایک ہی ماخذ سے ہیں، اس لیے ان کے لیے اضافی ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
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  "person/ibn-al-akhram-muhammad-ibn-yaqub",
  "person/khaythama-ibn-sulayman-al-atrabulusi",
  "person/ishaq-ibn-ibrahim-ibn-masarra",
  "person/abu-al-arab-al-tamimi-muhammad",
  "person/al-barbahari-al-hasan-ibn-ali",
  "person/muhammad-ibn-umar-al-kashi",
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  "person/al-istakhri-abu-said-al-hasan",
  "person/abu-al-saib-utba-hamadhani",
  "person/abu-bakr-al-naysaburi-ibn-ziyad",
  "person/al-naqqash-al-muqri"
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  "work/reconstruction-religious-thought-islam",
  "concept/adab",
  "concept/akhi-baba",
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-lamma",
  "concept/al-masalah",
  "concept/al-nafs-wal-ruh"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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