Abū ʿUthmān al-Dimashqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Endress, Gerhard
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Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī (d. after 302/914) was a physician and a translator of Greek scientific and philosophical works into Arabic. As one of the leading physicians of his time, he enjoyed the favour of the wazīr ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā Ibn al-Jarrāḥ (d. 334/946). When the latter endowed a hospital in the Ḥarbiyya quarter of Baghdad in 302/914-15, he appointed Abū ʿUthmān as chief physician, with the added responsibility of supervising the hospitals of Baghdad, Mecca, and Medina (Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, 1: