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Ibn al-Hashsha Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad

ابن الحشاء أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد

1249 CE · 647 AH

Physician who lived in Tunis in the first half of the seventh century AH; died 647 AH (1249 CE).

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At a glance

Roles
Physician
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
Review
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi

Medicine

Place in the story

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

Overview

Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hashsha, a physician who lived in Tunis in the first half of the seventh century AH. He died in 647 AH (1249 CE). 1

People and things also explored

The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· Abu Abdallah al-Natili· Ahmad al-Damanhuri· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Hashsha Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-hashsha-abu-jafar-ahmad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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The 'Adudi Bimaristan

The 'Adudi Bimaristan of Baghdad, the hospital 'Adud al-Dawla built: opened at the start of Rabi' II 372 with everything spent that could perfect it — physicians gathered in it, medicines, wardens, servants, vessels and clothes, all that the sick need — and the poor were given the clothes and vessels that came out of it.