Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʻid Ibn al-Tilmīdh was a Syriac Christian

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 physician

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, pharmacist

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, poet

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, musician

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 and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization

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Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the [[ʻAḍudī hospital]] in Baghdad

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 where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi

Al-Mustadi

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, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad. He mastered the Arabic

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, Persian

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, Greek

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 and Syriac

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 languages.

He compiled several medical works, the most influential being Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl.

Works

• Marginal commentary on Ibn Sina's "Canon"
  The Canon of Medicine
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• Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir
• Maqālah fī al-faṣd