Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn (d.1101 AD), Kitab al-Mughni fi'l-Tibb, copied by Muhammad ibn Radwan ibn Radi ibn Layth, Near East, dated 20 Ramadan 707 AH/21 March 1308 AD

Abu’l-Hasan Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah was a highly respected scholar and physician of Baghdad. He served as physician to Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadi (r.1075-94), and his son Al-Mustazhir billah (r.1094-1118) (Savage-Smith et al. 2020, no.10.58). Despite his high rank, little biographical information remains of our author, but he is known to have tutored prominent physicians including Abu’l Barakat Hibat Allah ibn Malka al-Baghdadi, known as Baruch ben Malka (Steinschneider 1902, pp.182-6).

The introduction records that the text was composed for Caliph Al-Muqtadi, listing diseases, followed by their causes, symptoms and treatments in brief, ordered from the head down through the body. This manuscript is signed by Muhammad ibn Radwan who states on the opening leaf that he copied it for himself. This would suggest that the scribe was a physician much like its author. For further manuscripts by the author, see Brockelmann, GAL, I, pp. 639-640, and S.I, p.888.