Ibn al-Samḥ, Abū ʿAlī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Samḥ (d. 418/1027) belonged to the Bagdad Aristotelians around Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī (d. 363/974) and played a major role in the transmission of the surviving Arabic versions of Aristotle's Physics and Rhetoric stemming from this circle. The two original works (see below) by Ibn al-Samḥ known to be extant give his name as either al-Ḥasan b. Sahl b. Ghālib b. al-Samḥ (in the Jawāb ) or al-Ḥasan b. Sahl b. al-Shamkh b. Ghālib (in the Qawl ). The