Bukhtishu ibn Jibril

بختيشوع بن جبرائيل

c. 869 CE · c. 255 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

A physician of the Bukhtishu medical family in the Abbasid period, close to the caliph al-Muhtadi. He was succeeded by his son Ubayd Allah.

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Physician
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Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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موجز

بختيشوع بن جبرائيل طبيب من أسرة بختيشوع الطبية في العصر العباسي. كان قريباً من الخليفة المهتدي، وخلّف ولده عبيد الله. 1

يقول ابن النديم إنه يكنى أبا جبريل، وإنه معروف مشهور متقدم عند الملوك. خدم الرشيد والأمين والمأمون والمعتصم والواثق والمتوكل، وكسب بالطب ما لم يكسبه مثله. وكانت الخلفاء تثق به على أمهات أولادها. وله كتاب «التذكرة» عمله لابنه جبريل. 2

توفي نحو سنة 869م بحسب موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء. 1

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
  2. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.413
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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.