Sabur Ibn Sahl

Sabur ibn Sahl was the head of the hospital of Gundishapur, and a Christian, according to Ibn al-Nadim ².

Ibn al-Nadim describes him as an accomplished and advanced scholar. He wrote the Aqrabadhin, on which hospitals and pharmacists' shops relied, in twenty-two chapters, and a book on the powers of foods, their harms and their benefits ².

He died on Monday, nine days before the end of Dhu al-Hijja in the year 255 AH ².