Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim

ابن أبي أصيبعة أحمد بن القاسم

c. 1270 CE · 668 AH

A physician and historian of medicine from a Damascene family, author of ʿUyun al-Anba' fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Physician · Historian
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

117512001225125012751300132513501375 c. c. c. c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru' · Ahmad al-Badawi · Ahmad al-Suhrawardi

History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

  • PhysicianTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Ahmad ibn al-Qasim ibn Khalifa ibn Yunus al-Sa'di al-Khazraji, a physician and historian of medicine from a Damascene family. He wrote "Uyun al-Anba' fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'" (Sources of Information on the Classes of Physicians). 1

Death

The encyclopaedia gives his death as around 668 AH (around 1270 CE). The date is approximate and comes from a single source, so it needs an additional source. 1

People and things also explored

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.131
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-abi-usaybia-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
Related

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.