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أبو الصلت عبد السلام بن صالح

أبو الصلت عبد السلام بن صالح

An intimate of al-Ma'mun's; sleeping over he found the lamp-lighter asleep and watched the caliph trim the wick himself, murmuring that the servants sometimes curse him unawares — 'and I pardon them' 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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أبو الصلت عبد السلام بن صالح من بطانة المأمون. يروي السيوطي أنه بات عنده ليلة، فنام القيّم على السراج، فقام المأمون وأصلحه بنفسه وقال: ربما أكون في المتوضأ فيشتمني الخدام ولا يدرون أني أسمع، فأعفو عنهم 2.

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عبد الله المأمون بن هارون الرشيد

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Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom· إحصاء أولاد العباس سنة مئتين· عهد المأمون إلى علي الرضا· وقعة طاهر بن الحسين مع علي بن عيسى· The Conquest of Crete· بيعة هارون الرشيد· قسمة الخلافة بين أبناء الرشيد· Kabul Shah's Submission to al-Ma'mun

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  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 503
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.503
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Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom

The House of Wisdom at Baghdad, the greatest library whose report survives from the first Abbasid age: al-Rashid laid its nucleus and al-Ma'mun enlarged and strengthened it. Al-Rashid put Yuhanna ibn Masawayh over the translation of the ancient medical books found in Byzantine lands with skilled scribes writing before him; Abu Sahl al-Fadl ibn Nawbakht rendered Persian wisdom-books into Arabic in its khizana, and Allan al-Shu'ubi copied for al-Rashid, al-Ma'mun and the Barmakids. Al-Ma'mun widened it, sending to the Byzantine emperor for the ancient sciences an embassy of al-Hajjaj ibn Matar, Ibn al-Bitriq and Salm the master of the House, and making Sahl ibn Harun keeper of its treasuries — though its precise organisation and site remain wrapped in obscurity.