Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a

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physician,

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, poet, musician and

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of the medieval

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Life

Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in

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where he eventually became its chief physician as well as

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to the caliph

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

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and Syriac languages. Al-Tilmidh was a friend of the Muslim scientist al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī with whom he frequently sided against

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. 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

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. His poetry included riddles:

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quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his ''Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz'' (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).Nefeli Papoutsakis, ‘Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d. 568/1172) and his ''Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles''’, ''Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes'', 109 (2019), 251–69.

Works

* ''Marginal commentary on

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's "Canon"'' * ''Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir'' * ''Maqālah fī al-faṣd''

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