and on one ʿĪd day, while the sultan was in the parade ground, al-Ṭūsī advanced with a herald walking ahead of him proclaiming, “This is the king of the scholars!” A canopy—held aloft on the very tips of their fingers—shaded him; whenever the jesters caught sight of it they would recite, “Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming?” (88:1). The emirs then scattered, seething with anger at him.

He experienced remarkable incidents with al-ʿĀdil and with Ibn Shukr when they encroached upon the waqf endowments of the madrasas; he defended the people and stood his ground.

Ibn al-Najjār said: He died in Egypt in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of 596 AH, and the sultan’s sons carried his bier upon their shoulders. May Allah have mercy on him.

196 – Al-Sadīd, Abū al-Manṣūr ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd ibn Mubārak

The leading physician, the Hippocrates of his age, Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Manṣūr ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAlī ibn Dāwūd ibn Mubārak.

He learned the craft from his father, Shaykh al-Sadīd (1), and from ʿAdlān ibn ʿAyn Zarbi. At the frontier city (2) he heard hadith from Ibn ʿAwf. He became chief of the physicians in Egypt, served its kings (3), trained the physicians who succeeded him, and worldly prosperity came his way. He attended upon al-ʿĀḍid, the ruler of Egypt, and lived to an advanced age.

Among those who studied under him was the master of physicians, al-Nafīs ibn al-Zubayr, who related that he once entered, together with his father, upon al-Āmir the ʿUbaydī.

Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah, quoting Asʿad al-Dīn, reports that al-Sadīd earned, in a single day