| Ibn al-Tilmīdh ابن التلمیذ | |
| Birth Name: | Habbat-allah Ibn Said أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى |
| Birth Date: | 1074 |
| Birth Place: | Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq |
| Death Date: | 11 April 1165 (aged 92) |
| Death Place: | Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq |
| Occupation: | Physician, Pharmacist, Poet, musician, Calligrapher, As physician in Al-'Adudi Hospital, Baghdad, now Iraq, Personal physician of Caliph Al-Mustadi |
| Notableworks: | Marginal commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, Maqālah fī al-faṣd |
Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (Arabic: هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization.[1]
Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in Baghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad.[2] He mastered the Arabic, Persian, Greek and Syriac languages. Al-Tilmidh was a friend of the Muslim scientist al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī with whom he frequently sided against Abu'l-Barakat.[3]
He compiled several medical works, the most influential being Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl. His poetry included riddles: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).[4]