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  "ar": "محمد أيوب",
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  "ar": "قارئ وعالم سعودي من أصل أراكاني روهينغي (1952–2016)، وُلد بمكة، إمام المسجد النبوي بين 1990 و1997 وفي رمضان 2015، وعضو هيئة التدريس في التفسير بالجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة، اشتهر بتلاوته الخاشعة.",
  "en": "Saudi reciter and scholar of Rohingya (Arakan) origin (1952–2016), born in Mecca, imam of the Prophet's Mosque from 1990 to 1997 and again for Ramadan 2015, and a tafsir faculty member at the Islamic University of Madinah, famed for his moving recitation.",
  "ur": "اراکانی روہنگیا نژاد سعودی قاری اور عالم (1952ء–2016ء)، مکہ میں پیدا ہوئے، 1990ء سے 1997ء تک اور رمضان 2015ء میں مسجد نبوی کے امام، مدینہ کی اسلامی یونیورسٹی میں تفسیر کے استاد، اپنی دل گداز تلاوت کے لیے مشہور۔"
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   "edtf": "1952-10",
   "hijri": "1372",
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   "note": "The English article gives October 1952 (1372 AH), citing the family's own site; the Arabic lead gives 1372 AH/1952 while its infobox gives 1952 or 1953. Wikidata gives 1 January 1952, a year value carried at day precision; no source documents a birth day, so the record carries the month with the year debated.",
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   "edtf": "2016-04-16",
   "hijri": "1437",
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   "note": "Died at Medina on 16 April 2016 (9 Rajab 1437); the funeral prayer was held at the Prophet's Mosque and he was buried in al-Baqi cemetery.",
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    "value": "محمد أيوب بن محمد يوسف بن سليمان عمر الأراكاني",
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   {
    "value": "Muhammad Ayyub ibn Muhammad Yusuf ibn Sulayman Umar al-Arakani",
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   {
    "value": "محمد أيوب",
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   {
    "value": "Muhammad Ayyub",
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   "edtf": "1952-10",
   "hijri": "1372",
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "The English article gives October 1952 (1372 AH), citing the family's own site; the Arabic lead gives 1372 AH/1952 while its infobox gives 1952 or 1953. Wikidata gives 1 January 1952, a year value carried at day precision; no source documents a birth day, so the record carries the month with the year debated.",
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   "note": "Died at Medina on 16 April 2016 (9 Rajab 1437); the funeral prayer was held at the Prophet's Mosque and he was buried in al-Baqi cemetery.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "One personal text attestation only. The English article's text states that he followed the Hanafi school, citing a single source — a 2004 Asia Times piece — that the article itself flags as needing a better source; its infobox repeats Hanafi on that same citation, and the Urdu infobox gives Ahl al-Sunna and Hanafi without a citation, the same claim in structured form: one source family. The Arabic article names no school (his fiqh study covered the four schools) and Wikidata gives Islam only. Short of two independent attestations, his school is not recorded.",
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   "source": "Wikipedia EN/AR/UR articles and Wikidata item Q6932427, each read at its recorded revision 26 October 2026",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "الملخص",
     "markdown": "محمد أيوب (1952–2016) قارئ وعالم سعودي من أصل أراكاني روهينغي، إمام المسجد النبوي بين 1990 و1997 وفي صلوات رمضان 2015، وعضو هيئة التدريس في التفسير بالجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة المنورة. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته وإمامته",
     "markdown": "وُلد بمكة سنة 1952 (1372هـ) في أسرة من أراكان ببورما رجالها من أهل العلم؛ وكان والده قد فرّ من الاضطهاد هناك وعمل في سوق الكتبة بمكة. حفظ القرآن سنة 1965 على خليل القاري، وحصل على الدكتوراه في التفسير من الجامعة الإسلامية بالمدينة، ودرّس بكلية القرآن فيها وأُوفد مراراً للتدريس في باكستان. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}\n\nعُيّن سنة 1990 إماماً للمسجد النبوي فأمّ فيه حتى 1997 وسجّل أول مصحف كامل لإذاعة المسجد، وعاد فأمّ التراويح والتهجد في رمضان 2015. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته وإرثه",
     "markdown": "توفي بالمدينة في 16 أبريل 2016 (9 رجب 1437هـ)، وصُلي عليه بالمسجد النبوي ودُفن بمقبرة البقيع. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ayyub}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Muhammad Ayyub (1952–2016) was a Saudi reciter and scholar of Rohingya origin, imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina from 1990 to 1997 and again for the Ramadan prayers of 2015, and a member of the tafsir faculty at the Islamic University of Madinah. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and imamate",
     "markdown": "He was born in Mecca in 1952 (1372 AH) to a family from Arakan in Burma whose men were scholars; his father had fled persecution there and worked in Mecca's scribes' market. He memorised the Qur'an in 1965 under Khalil al-Qari and took a doctorate in tafsir from the Islamic University of Madinah, where he taught in the College of the Qur'an and was repeatedly deputed to teach in Pakistan. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}\n\nIn 1990 he was appointed imam of the Prophet's Mosque, leading there until 1997 and recording the mosque's first complete recitation for its radio station; he returned to lead the Ramadan Tarawih and Tahajjud prayers in 2015. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "He died in Medina on 16 April 2016 (9 Rajab 1437); the funeral prayer was held at the Prophet's Mosque and he was buried in al-Baqi cemetery. {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ayyub}"
    }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "محمد ایوب (1952ء–2016ء) روہنگیا نژاد سعودی قاری اور عالم تھے، 1990ء سے 1997ء تک اور رمضان 2015ء میں مسجد نبوی کے امام رہے، اور مدینہ کی اسلامی یونیورسٹی میں تفسیر کے استاد تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور امامت",
     "markdown": "وہ 1952ء (1372ھ) میں مکہ میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کا خاندان برما کے اراکان سے تھا اور اس کے مرد اہل علم تھے، والد وہاں کے مظالم سے فرار ہو کر مکہ آئے تھے۔ 1965ء میں خلیل القاری سے قرآن حفظ کیا اور اسلامی یونیورسٹی مدینہ سے تفسیر میں ڈاکٹریٹ کیا، وہیں کلیۃ القرآن میں تدریس کی اور پاکستان میں بھی پڑھانے بھیجے گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ar}\n\n1990ء میں مسجد نبوی کے امام مقرر ہوئے اور 1997ء تک امامت کی، مسجد کے ریڈیو کے لیے پہلی مکمل تلاوت ریکارڈ کی؛ 2015ء کے رمضان میں تراویح و تہجد کی امامت کے لیے دوبارہ لوٹے۔ {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور ورثہ",
     "markdown": "16 اپریل 2016ء (9 رجب 1437ھ) کو مدینہ میں وفات پائی؛ نماز جنازہ مسجد نبوی میں ادا ہوئی اور تدفین بقیع قبرستان میں ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-ur}{cite:wikipedia-muhammad-ayyub-en}{cite:wikidata-muhammad-ayyub}"
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