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 "id": "place/afra",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "afra",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عَفْراء",
  "en": "Afra'"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ماء للروم بفلسطين صلبوا عليه فروة بن عمرو الجذامي وضربوا عنقه؛ ذكره فروة في بيتيه، وفي شرح المواهب للزرقاني أنه ممدود وقصره في الشعر ضرورة، وفي أصول السيرة «عفرا» بالقصر.",
  "en": "A water of the Romans in Palestine where Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami was crucified and beheaded; he names it in his two verses, and al-Zurqani's commentary on al-Mawahib reads it with the long ending, shortened in the verse by licence, while the sira's manuscripts have the short form."
 },
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 ],
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  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 238 and n. 5",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 238; no coordinates"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ماء بفلسطين أجمعت الروم على صلب [[person/farwa-ibn-amr-al-judhami|فروة بن عمرو الجذامي]] عليه، فضربوا عنقه وصلبوه عنده؛ انظر [[event/martyrdom-of-farwa-al-judhami|استشهاد فروة]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اسمه",
     "markdown": "يذكره فروة في بيتيه «على ماء عفرا فوق إحدى الرواحل»؛ وينقل المحققون عن شرح المواهب للزرقاني أنه «عفراء» بفتح العين وسكون الفاء وألف ممدودة، وأن قصره في الشعر ضرورة، وأن الأصول تكتبه «عفرا». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/afra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-15"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Afra: a water-place in Palestine, where the Romans agreed to crucify [[person/farwa-ibn-amr-al-judhami|Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami]]; they struck off his neck and crucified him there. See [[event/martyrdom-of-farwa-al-judhami|the martyrdom of Farwa]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its name",
     "markdown": "Farwa mentions it in his two verses: \"at the water of Afra, above one of the mounts\". The editors, citing the commentary on al-Mawahib by al-Zurqani, record it as \"Afra\", with a fatha on the ayn, a sukun on the fa and a long alif, and note that the shortening of it in the verse is a poetic necessity, and that the originals write it as \"Afra\". {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/afra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فلسطین کا ایک چشمہ، جہاں رومیوں نے [[person/farwa-ibn-amr-al-judhami|فروہ بن عمرو جذامی]] کو سولی دینے پر اتفاق کیا، پھر ان کی گردن ماری اور وہیں سولی پر لٹکا دیا؛ دیکھیں [[event/martyrdom-of-farwa-al-judhami|فروہ کی شہادت]]۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نام",
     "markdown": "فروہ اپنے دو شعروں میں اسے «علی ماء عفرا» کہتے ہیں۔ محققین شرح المواہب للزرقانی کے حوالے سے بیان کرتے ہیں کہ یہ «عفراء» ہے، عین مفتوح، فاء ساکن اور الف ممدودہ کے ساتھ، اور شعر میں اس کا مختصر کرنا شعری ضرورت ہے، جبکہ قدیم نسخوں میں یہ «عفرا» لکھا ملتا ہے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/238}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/afra",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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 "updated": "2026-10-15",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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