Talk:Sahib ibn Abbad

500 camels to carry all his books?

Is this true?

When the Samanid emperor invited Ibn Abbad to serve as his Vizier, he replied that he couldn't go because of his library; it would take 400 camels to take all his books, including sixty just for his dictionaries. Just the catalogue of his library took up ten volumes. (Some calculations have been done with the average weight of medieval Persian books and the average load that camels can carry, and it seems that if Ibn Abbad wasn't exaggerating, he must have owned some 206,000 books.)

books of Abdul Kassem Ismael

J mareeswaran (talk) 05:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Wrong Creed

He was not from Mutazila. He was shia muslim and he wrote some books on shia theology 2A01:799:16D4:CE00:E7E1:11AA:4150:479F (talk) 14:13, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Not according to Iranica [1]:

"Ebn ʿAbbād was also known as a tireless champion of Muʿtazili rationalism of the Baṣran school. He often attempted to demonstrate that lexicographical, rhetorical, grammatical and literary knowledge was of utility in answering theological questions. His works of Muʿtazili kalām appear to have been intended to serve mainly as introductions to school doctrine: al-Ebāna ʿan maḏhab ahl al-ʿadl bi-ḥojaj al-Qorʾān wa’l-ʿaql (Treatise clarifying the tenets of the Muʿtazila with proofs from the Quran and reason); al-Tadkera fi osul al-ḵamsa (Aide mémoire concerning the five principles); and Resāla fi’l-hedaya wa’l-ḍalāla (Letter concerning right guidance and error).

Although not himself a Shiʿite, Ebn ʿAbbād composed verse that suggested his love for the family of the Prophet. During the course of his life, he met three Zaydi imams from the Caspian Sea: al-Mahdi le’Din Allāh (d. 969), al-Moʾayyad be’llāh (d. 1020-21) and al-Nāṭeq be’l-Ḥaqq (d. 1032). In Rayy, Ebn ʿAbbād encouraged the visitation of the shrine of ʿAbd-al-ʿAẓim al-Ḥasani (d. before 868) a companion of the Twelver-Shiʿite imams, Moḥammad al-Jawād (d. 835) and ʿAli al-Hādi (d. 868) in a letter concerning this shrine. Ebn ʿAbbād’s adherence to Muʿtazili principles, however, did put him at odds with the Twelver-Shiʿi traditionalist Ebn Bābawayh (d. 991) whom he allegedly banished from his court along with several other prominent ḥadith scholars (Tawḥidi, p. 167)."

--HistoryofIran (talk) 14:22, 29 July 2023 (UTC)