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Abu Al-Ma'ali Ibn Hibat Allah (fl. late 12th century) was a Jewish-Egyptian physician who lived in Fusṭaṭ (near Cairo). He was the physician of Salaḥ al-Din (Saladin) and, after Saladin's death, of his brother Al-Malik al-'Adil.

Ibn Abi Uṣaibi'ah, in his biographies of the Arabic physicians, speaks highly of Abu al-Ma'ali's learning, generosity, and great influence at court. He relates further that almost all his children embraced Islam. Al-Ma'ali wrote many works and essays on medicine, which are no longer in existence, including one titled "Ta'aliḳ wa-Maghrabat". The 19th-century biographer Steinschneider is inclined to identify al-Ma'ali with the brother-in-law of Maimonides and the secretary of the mother of the vizier Al-Faḍal .