ابن البيطار

Diya' al-Din Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Malaqi al-Shashshab, known as Ibn al-Baytar, author of al-Mufradat fi al-Adwiya (On Simple Medicines). Ibn al-Imad in Shadharat al-Dhahab says that knowledge of plants, their properties, their uses and their habitats ended with him, and that he entered the service of al-Kamil and then of his son al-Salih, and was a chief in the lands of Egypt. ¹

He died in Damascus in Sha'ban 646 AH, according to the same source. ¹

For another biography of a scholar of this name, see Ibn al-Bitar Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ahmad. It needs an additional source to confirm whether the two are one person.