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محمد بن سعد كاتب الواقدي

محمد بن سعد كاتب الواقدي

كاتب الواقدي وصاحب الطبقات، أشخصه المأمون سنة ثمان عشرة ضمن السبعة الأوائل للمحنة بخلق القرآن فأجاب ورد من الرقة إلى بغداد 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Muhammad ibn Sa'd, secretary of al-Waqidi and author of the Tabaqat. Al-Ma'mun summoned him in 218 AH among the first seven to be tested over the createdness of the Qur'an. He answered, and returned from al-Raqqa to Baghdad. 2

The data say that his relation with al-Ma'mun was "a relation" without specifying its kind, and this needs an additional source.

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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

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 490
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.490
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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.