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A fact from Abu Bilal Mirdas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that the Kharijite leader Abu Bilal Mirdas defeated a 2,000-strong Umayyad army with his band of forty? Source: Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Mirdas b. Udayya in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, vol. 7, p. 123; I. K . Howard, The History of Al-Tabari, vol. 19, p. 183
ALT1:... that the Kharijite leader Abu Bilal Mirdas returned to prison from his parole even though he had been informed he would be executed the next day? Source: Michael G. Morony, The History of Al-Tabari, vol. 18, p. 197; Julius Wellhausen, Oppositionsparteien, p. 26
Overall: Thank you for an interesting article and a very interesting hook, I think that the first hook is considerably more interesting. I was able to verify the information from both sources given and the Encyclopedia of Islam is a strong enough source for the statement. I note that the latter source given is a primary source, whereas the Encyclopedia of Islam, although used for verification in this nomination, is not present as an inline source for this piece of information in the article. It would be preferable for it to be added there as well. Overall, though, this is good to go! GGT (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for an interesting article and a very interesting hook, I think that the first hook is considerably more interesting. I was able to verify the information from both sources given and the Encyclopedia of Islam is a strong enough source for the statement. I note that the latter source given is a primary source, whereas the Encyclopedia of Islam, although used for verification in this nomination, is not present as an inline source for this piece of information in the article. It would be preferable for it to be added there as well. Overall, though, this is good to go! GGT (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2021 (UTC)