I came across some of his narrations in al-Ḥaddād’s Muʿjam.
He died sometime after 430 AH.
356 – Ibn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Balkhī *
The celebrated scholar and philosopher, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn (1) ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā, originally from Balkh and later resident in Bukhārā, author of numerous treatises on medicine, philosophy, and logic.
His father was a scribe who served in the Ismāʿīlī missionary ranks. Ibn Sīnā relates:
“My father once administered a large village, after which he settled in Bukhārā. By the age of ten I had completed the Quran and much literature. My father used to associate with the Egyptian daʿī and was considered an Ismāʿīlī.”
He then recounts the beginnings of his studies, the sharpness of his understanding, and how he mastered logic and Euclid’s Elements, until he says: “I developed an interest in medicine, distinguished myself in it, and people would study under me while I…”
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(1) Al-Jawahir al-mudiyya reads “al-Hasan,” which is a scribal error.