حکیم أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر - Avenzoar

أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر المعروف حکیم ابن زہرنے ہسپانیہ(Spain) میں ایک مریض  کا حیران کن علاج کیا ،  یہ واقعہ  سنہ 1120 کا ہے۔

By: Hakeem Muhammad Rizwan Arshad

 

Ibn Zuhr Physician/Hakeem

Abū-Marwān ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Zuhr, better known in the West by his Latinized name Avenzoar, was an Arab-Muslim physician, surgeon and a contemporary of Averroes and Maimonides.

Born: 1094, Seville, Spain

Died: 1162, Seville, Spain

Parents: Abu'l-Ala Zuhr

Treatment of a Patient, in 1120 in Spain by a Muslim Physician.

In 1120, Avenzoar (أبو مروان عبد الملك بن زهر), a Muslim doctor(Hakeem / Unani Medicine Physician /حکیم ) was on his way to see his patient, the Almoravid ruler of Seville. By the side of the road he saw an emaciated man holding a water jug. The man's belly was swollen, and he was in obvious distress.

"Are you sick?" the doctor asked. The man nodded.

"What have you been eating?"

"Only a few crusts of bread and the water from this jug."

"Bread won't hurt you," said the doctor. "It could be the water. Where are you getting it?"

"From the well in town."

The doctor pondered a moment. "The well is clean. It must be the jug. Break it and find a new one."

"I can't," whined the man, "This is my only jug."

"And that thing bulging out there," replied the doctor, pointing to the man's midsection, "is your only stomach. It is easier to find a new jug than a new stomach."

The man continued to protest, but one of the doctor's servants picked up a stone and smashed the jug. A dead frog spilled out with the foul water.

"My friend," the doctor said to the patient, "look what you have been drinking. That frog would have taken you with him. Here, take this coin and go buy a new jug."

When the doctor passed by a few days later, he saw the same man sitting by the side of the road. His stomach had shrunk, he had gained weight, and his color was back. Seeing the doctor, the man heaped praise on him.

Narrated by Ibn Abi Usaybi'a( ابن أبي أصيبعة موفق الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القاسم بن خليفة الشعري الخزرجي),

in his bookʿUyūn ul-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt ul-Aṭibbāʾ ( عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء‎), or Lives of the Physicians, which in its first edition (1245-1246) was dedicated to the vizier of Damascus.

13th century......

حوالہ کتاب :-  عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء

مصنف :-  ابن أبي أصيبعة موفق الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القاسم بن خليفة الشعري الخزرجي