Did Wikipedia remove the word "martyr" from the Tufayl ibn Amr article?

Yes. "martyr" appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. We saved the article's opening paragraph at 5 moments between 2010 and 2025, and the counts come from those saved copies.

When did the Tufayl ibn Amr article stop using the word "martyr"?

The word appeared 1 times in the opening at its peak in 2010. It is absent from today's opening, the part search engines quote and AI systems train on, checked against the live article on 2026-08-02.

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Tufayl ibn Amr

The word “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 1 remains further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.

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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “martyr” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1.

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The opening as it read in 2010

Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi (died 633) was the chief of the Banu Daws tribe from Tihama in pre-Quranic times.¹ He accepted Islam before the hijra and helped propagate Islam among his fellow tribesmen.² During the Riddah wars, he led a contingent of his people against the impostor Mosailima . In the Battle of Yamama , Tufayl ibn Amr fell as a martyr. v t e³

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Today

“martyr” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 1. Read the current article and compare.

Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
	2010	2015	2020	Oct '23	2025
martyr	1	1	1	0	0

What Wikipedia says this is

Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined between 2010 and 2020.

Then

chief of the banu daws tribe from tihama in pre-quranic times

Now

chief of the banu daws tribe from tihama in pre-islamic times

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1. Rewrote: “Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi (died 633) was the chief of the Banu…” Changed after our 2025 snapshot. Now reads: “Chief of the Banu Daws tribe (died 633 CE) Al-Ṭufayl ibn ʿAmr al-Dawsī ( Arabic : الطفيل بن عمرو الدوسي) (died 633)…”

The opening's identifying sentence was reworded with full diacritics and titling, without a change in substance.

2. Removed: “He accepted Islam before the hijra and helped propagate Islam among his…” In the article until 2015 (rev), gone by 2020 (rev).

The detail that he accepted Islam before the hijra and helped spread it among his tribe, dropped from the now much-shorter opening.

3. Removed 2 sentences: “…Tufayl ibn Amr fell as a martyr. v t e” In the article until 2020 (rev), gone by October 6, 2023 (rev).

The detail that he died as a martyr at the Battle of Yamama, dropped from the now much-shorter opening.

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