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The secretary quotes his master in one wing only
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Claim (verbatim)
Ibn Sa'd (d. 230/845) was katib al-Waqidi, and his Tabaqat al-kubra opens with a sira-maghazi wing - the first two of its eight print volumes - narrating exactly his master's subject, wholesale from his master's book; the tabaqat proper that follow (death dates, tabaqa placements, hadith-bearer profiles) had no counterpart in al-Waqidi's Maghazi (d. 207/823) to draw on. The dependence should therefore be a head-concentration in the reuse geometry, not a uniform stain. Prediction: of the KITAB alignment instances between 0230IbnSacd.TabaqatKubra and 0207Waqidi.Maghazi, at least 60% will fall within the first 30% of the Tabaqat's milestone span (primary clause: the >=60%-in-first-30% concentration; the verdict follows it); secondarily and non-bindingly, the Maghazi will rank first among the Tabaqat's earlier-authored partner books by instance count; if fewer than 20 Tabaqat-Maghazi instances exist, the test is void as a coverage failure rather than a kill. Kill: the KITAB one_to_all msdata file for the Tabaqat's OpenITI primary version, with Tabaqat-side milestones from its own OpenITI text and partner author prefixes from the OpenITI 2025.1.9 metadata.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Prediction: of the KITAB alignment instances between 0230IbnSacd.TabaqatKubra and 0207Waqidi.Maghazi, at least 60% will fall within the first 30% of the Tabaqat's milestone span (primary clause: the >=60%-in-first-30% concentration; the verdict follows it); secondarily and non-bindingly, the Maghazi will rank first among the Tabaqat's earlier-authored partner books by instance count; if fewer than 20 Tabaqat-Maghazi instances exist, the test is void as a coverage failure rather than a kill.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the KITAB one_to_all msdata file for the Tabaqat's OpenITI primary version, with Tabaqat-side milestones from its own OpenITI text and partner author prefixes from the OpenITI 2025.1.9 metadata.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Fresh blind generation, claude-fable-5, 2026-07-17: an Islamicate wave designed for immediate resolvability against the just-built OpenITI/KITAB apparatus (the frozen minds-works text layer and the validated one_to_all reuse data); every test operationally crisp per the operationalization-stability lesson (structural counts, reuse geometry, pinned multi-word markers, far-from-1 thresholds, explicit inconclusive-by-design guards); no fabricated citations - every named work's presence and primary-version status was checked against the local OpenITI 2025.1.9 metadata snapshot before inclusion, with no outcome data consulted.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
Ibn Sa'd's dependence on his master al-Waqidi for the sira-maghazi wing of the Tabaqat is established in the classical source criticism (he is katib al-Waqidi, and the biography volumes are described as largely built on al-Waqidi and Ibn Ishaq); but the head-concentration of the reuse geometry - 60% of the alignment instances in the first 30% of the span - has not been measured.
- J. Horovitz, The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and Their Authors, ed. L.I. Conrad (Princeton, 2002)
- R. Faizer (ed.), The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi's Kitab al-Maghazi (London, 2011), introduction
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