Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Physician
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Life in time
Overview
Shaykh al-Sadid, shaykh of medicine in Egypt — Sharaf al-Din 'Abdallah b. 'Ali; he took the craft from al-Muwaffaq Ibn al-Mutin, served al-'Adid lord of Egypt, won sanctity and wide standing and lived an age; Nafis al-Din Ibn al-Zubayr studied under him. 1
His wealth
It is told that al-Sadid earned thirty thousand dinars in a single day; his pupil Ibn al-Zubayr told that he purified al-Hafiz li-Din Allah's son and gained about fifty thousand dinars in gold. He died in 592. 1
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 789
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Shaykh al-Sadid”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sadidi-physician/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.