Amin al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmidh

Abu'l-Hasan Hibat Allah ibn Abi'l-Ghana'im Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah, known as Ibn al-Tilmidh, the Christian physician of Baghdad; al-'Imad al-Isbahani called him "sultan of the sages, the world's resort in medicine, the Hippocrates of his age and Galen of his time — with him this science was sealed"; he lived long, noble and great, was the shaykh, priest and head of the Christians, and left graceful verse; his medical works include the Aqrabadhin his age's physicians worked by, a compendium, and glosses on Ibn Sina's Qanun. ²

Very humble; Ibn al-Azraq alone notes that he died on the Christians' feast day and that none in Baghdad of either community failed to attend his burial and funeral; among his courtesies, the roof of his house adjoined the Nizamiyya madrasa — when a jurist fell ill he carried him there and nursed him, and when the man recovered he would give him two dinars. ²