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 "label": {
  "ar": "جعفر محمود آدم",
  "en": "Ja'afar Mahmud Adam",
  "ur": "جعفر محمود آدم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عالم نيجيري (1960–2007) من داورا، درس في الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة، وكان عضوا في جماعة إزالة البدعة وإقامة السنة (إزالا) وأشهر واعظي الشمال النيجيري، عُرف بتفسيره الرمضاني السنوي في مايدوغوري وتسجيلات دروسه المنتشرة. اغتيل بالرصاص أثناء صلاة الفجر في مسجده بكانو في 13 أبريل 2007.",
  "en": "Nigerian scholar (1960–2007) from Daura who studied at the Islamic University of Madinah. A member of the Izala Society and one of northern Nigeria's best-known preachers, he was famed for his annual Ramadan tafsir in Maiduguri and his widely distributed recorded lessons. He was shot dead during the dawn prayer in his Kano mosque on 13 April 2007.",
  "ur": "نائجریائی عالم (1960ء–2007ء)، دورہ سے تعلق، جامعہ اسلامیہ مدینہ منورہ کے فاضل۔ جماعتِ إزالہ کے رکن اور شمالی نائجریا کے مشہور ترین واعظوں میں سے ایک تھے؛ میدوگوری میں ان کی سالانہ رمضان تفسیر اور ریکارڈ شدہ دروس دور دور تک پھیلے۔ 13 اپریل 2007 کو کانو کی اپنی مسجد میں نمازِ فجر کے دوران گولی مار کر شہید کر دیے گئے۔"
 },
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1960.1134177977644,
  "latest": 2007.2820797141308
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1960-02-12",
   "hijri": "1379",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give 12 February 1960, at Daura in Katsina State; the Arabic article's categories file him under births of 1379 AH, and the date falls in Ramadan 1379 AH. Brigaglia's scholarly study cited in the English article dates him 'ca. 1961/1962' in its title, a variant preserved here; the day-level date follows the articles and Wikidata. No place entity exists for Daura, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en",
    "source/wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar",
    "source/wikidata-jaafar-mahmud-adam"
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   "edtf": "2007-04-13",
   "hijri": "1428",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give his assassination in Kano on 13 April 2007, shot during the dawn (Subh) prayer in his mosque; the Arabic article's categories file him under deaths of 1428 AH, and the date falls in Rabi' al-awwal 1428 AH.",
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    "value": "Ja'afar Mahmud Adam",
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   {
    "value": "Ja'far Mahmud Adam",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Sheikh Ja'afar",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "preacher"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1960-02-12",
   "hijri": "1379",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give 12 February 1960, at Daura in Katsina State; the Arabic article's categories file him under births of 1379 AH, and the date falls in Ramadan 1379 AH. Brigaglia's scholarly study cited in the English article dates him 'ca. 1961/1962' in its title, a variant preserved here; the day-level date follows the articles and Wikidata. No place entity exists for Daura, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "2007-04-13",
   "hijri": "1428",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata all give his assassination in Kano on 13 April 2007, shot during the dawn (Subh) prayer in his mosque; the Arabic article's categories file him under deaths of 1428 AH, and the date falls in Rabi' al-awwal 1428 AH.",
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    "note": "FLAGGED — the Maliki reading stands one attestation short, for the founder's word (the Dedew / El-Kettani / Daurawa movement-without-school configuration). The English article's text calls the man himself 'a Nigerian Salafi Islamic scholar and a member of the Izala Society', citing Chouin, and the Arabic article's text repeats the same description on the same citation — one family: Salafism is his movement, and there is no salafi value in the enum. A school is named only inside one structured family: the English infobox's denomination 'Salafi, and Sunni' (on the same Chouin citation) and its uncited jurisprudence 'Maliki'; the Arabic infobox gives his religion as Muslim only, its Sunni and Salafi entries being category filings; Wikidata's single religion value is Sunni Islam, plausibly an echo of the English infobox. Two independent sources therefore name no madhhab for him, so the value stays unknown with the Maliki infobox reading preserved here.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Ja'afar Mahmud Adam' (revision 1375195587), Arabic Wikipedia 'جعفر محمود آدم' (revision 76497063) and Wikidata item Q6109466 (item revision 2546624183), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (jaafar, jafar, adam), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — the many classical Ja'far records are different men and no earlier record of the Nigerian scholar exists. His teacher Ahmad Bamba has no person record (amadou-bamba is a different man) and no group record exists for the Izala Society, so no student_of or member_of edge is written; his influence from Abubakar Gumi is not a student_of relation and is not written as one.",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "الدعوة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "عاش جعفر أساسا في كانو، واشتهر بتفسيره الرمضاني السنوي في مايدوغوري، وبدروسه المسجلة التي انتشرت على الأشرطة والأقراص ثم في الإذاعة والتلفزيون في أنحاء الشمال النيجيري {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}. دار تعليمه على الحديث والتفسير والتوحيد، وعلى التحذير مما يراه بدعا تناقض السنة {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الاغتيال",
     "markdown": "اغتيل جعفر بالرصاص أثناء صلاة الفجر في مسجده بكانو في 13 أبريل 2007 {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}. اختلفت الآراء يومها في المسؤولين: من اتهم بوكو حرام، ومن أشار إلى دوافع سياسية، ونسب كتاب لاحق لأبي مصعب البرناوي قتله إلى جماعة «طالبان نيجيريا»؛ وترجّح أبحاث أحدث أن العنف الفئوي داخل الجماعات المبكرة المرتبطة ببوكو حرام هو التفسير الأرجح {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الانتماء كما تنص عليه المصادر",
     "markdown": "السلفية في المتنين الإنجليزي والعربي حركة ينتمي إليها، معتمدة على إحالة واحدة، وليست مذهبا فقهيا؛ والمذهب لا يظهر إلا في أسرة بنيوية واحدة: صندوق معلومات المقالة الإنجليزية يعطي انتماءه «سلفي وسني» ومذهبه «مالكي»، وصندوق المقالة العربية يكتفي بـ«مسلم»، وقيمة ويكيداتا الوحيدة «الإسلام السني» {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar} {cite:wikidata-jaafar-mahmud-adam}. لذلك يبقي سجل المتحف مذهبه غير معروف، معلَّما لصاحب القرار، وقراءة المالكية محفوظة في ملاحظة السجل."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، والمسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- كل مراجعة لهذا المقال مؤرخة، وتسمي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/jaafar-mahmud-adam",
    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Preaching and teaching",
     "markdown": "Based mainly in Kano, Ja'afar became one of northern Nigeria's best-known preachers through his annual Ramadan tafsir in Maiduguri and his recorded lessons, distributed on cassettes and discs and later broadcast on radio and television {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}. His teaching centred on hadith, tafsir and tawhid, and on warning against practices he held to be innovations against the Sunnah {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}. Brigaglia's scholarly study of his career dates him \"ca. 1961/1962\" in its title, against the 1960 date of the articles and Wikidata — a variant kept in the data record's note {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Assassination",
     "markdown": "Ja'afar was shot dead during the dawn (Subh) prayer in his mosque in Kano on 13 April 2007 {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}. Responsibility was disputed at the time — some blamed Boko Haram, others political motives — a later book by Abu Musab al-Barnawi attributed the killing to the \"Nigerian Taliban\", and later research has pointed to factional violence within early Boko Haram-related groups as the likeliest explanation {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Affiliation, as the sources attest it",
     "markdown": "In both article texts Salafism is the movement he belonged to, carried on a single citation; a legal school appears only inside one structured family — the English infobox's \"Salafi, and Sunni\" denomination and its uncited \"Maliki\" jurisprudence — while the Arabic infobox gives his religion as Muslim only and Wikidata's single value is Sunni Islam {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar} {cite:wikidata-jaafar-mahmud-adam}. The museum's data record therefore leaves his school unknown, flagged for the founder, with the Maliki infobox reading preserved in the record's note."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "دعوت و تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ زیادہ تر کانو میں رہے؛ میدوگوری میں اپنی سالانہ رمضان تفسیر اور ریکارڈ شدہ دروس سے شمالی نائجریا کے مشہور ترین واعظوں میں شامل ہو گئے، جن کی کیسٹس اور ڈسکس دور دور پھیلیں اور بعد میں ریڈیو و ٹیلی وژن پر نشر ہوئیں {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}۔ ان کی تعلیم کا مرکز حدیث، تفسیر اور توحید تھا، اور ان بدعات سے انتباہ جنھیں وہ سنت کے خلاف سمجھتے تھے {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قتل",
     "markdown": "13 اپریل 2007 کو کانو میں اپنی مسجد کے اندر نمازِ فجر کے دوران انھیں گولی مار کر شہید کر دیا گیا {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar}۔ اس وقت ذمہ داری پر اختلاف تھا؛ بعض نے بوکو حرام کو موردِ الزام ٹھہرایا، بعض نے سیاسی وجوہات کی طرف اشارہ کیا؛ بعد کی تحقیق ابتدائی بوکو حرام سے جڑے گروہوں کے اندرونی فرقہ وارانہ تشدد کو زیادہ محتمل توضیح قرار دیتی ہے {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وابستگی، جیسا کہ ماخذ بتاتے ہیں",
     "markdown": "دونوں مضامین کے متن میں سلفیت وہ تحریک ہے جس سے وہ وابستہ تھے، ایک ہی حوالے پر مبنی؛ مسلک صرف ایک بناوٹی خاندان کے اندر ظاہر ہوتا ہے — انگریزی اطلاع خانے کا ’سلفی و سنی‘ انتماء اور اس کی بلا حوالہ ’مالکی‘ فقہ — جب کہ عربی اطلاع خانہ صرف ’مسلم‘ دیتا ہے اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی واحد قیمت ’سنی اسلام‘ ہے {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-en} {cite:wikipedia-jaafar-mahmud-adam-ar} {cite:wikidata-jaafar-mahmud-adam}۔ اس لیے عجائب گھر کا ریکارڈ ان کا مسلک ’نامعلوم‘ رکھتا ہے، بانی کے فیصلے کے لیے نشان زد، اور مالکی قراءت ریکارڈ کی یادداشت میں محفوظ ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر حوالہ دیے گئے متعین ماخذ، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر نظرثانی تاریخ کے ساتھ ہو، اور بتائے کہ کس ماخذ کی بنیاد پر کون سی بات بدلی گئی۔"
    }
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