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 "id": "person/qays-ibn-zuhayr",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "qays-ibn-zuhayr",
 "label": {
  "ar": "قيس بن زهير",
  "en": "Qays ibn Zuhayr",
  "ur": "قیس بن زہیر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من أمراء العرب في الجاهلية، عُرف بقيس الرأي؛ ترك الإمارة في آخر عمره وزهد، ومات في عُمان. يُذكر في المثل المتعلق بأخذ راحلة أمه. {cite:nihayat-al-arab-nuwayri-vol3-scan p. 24}",
  "en": "An Arab leader in pre-Islamic times known as Qays al-Ra'y; he gave up leadership, lived in asceticism and died in Oman. He appears in the proverb about taking a mount. {cite:nihayat-al-arab-nuwayri-vol3-scan p. 24}",
  "ur": "جاہلیت کے عرب سرداروں میں سے، جو قیس الرأی کے نام سے مشہور تھے؛ آخری عمر میں امارت چھوڑ کر زہد اختیار کیا اور عمان میں وفات پائی۔ {cite:nihayat-al-arab-nuwayri-vol3-scan p. 24}"
 },
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 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
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  "literature"
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    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "قيس بن زهير"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "ruler"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "ruler",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/nihayat-al-arab-nuwayri-vol3-scan"
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  ],
  "sources": [
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (Nihayat vol. 3 proverbs, scan p. 24, from OCR; not image-checked)"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "pd",
   "source": "archive.org nefa03 (Nihayat al-Arab vol. 3), scan p. 24",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "lib-nihayat-vol3-pp22-24"
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 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-tanahmir-himyari-speech",
  "concept/aljamia",
  "concept/asma-al-arab-min-al-nabat",
  "concept/hikam-ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "concept/poetry-attributed-to-ali",
  "event/delegation-of-banu-tamim",
  "event/kaab-ibn-zuhayr-pardon-and-burda",
  "event/khuzaa-appeal-to-medina"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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