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A fact from Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The introduction says he lived 871–956, but the last sentence says he died in 957. Neither source is accessible to me (the specific pages are not available for preview in Google Books, and I don't have access to the Brill article), so I can't verify anything. Which year is correct? Thanks. —howcheng {chat}08:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)Reply
