Shapur ibn Sahl

Shapur ibn Sahl, also written Sabur ibn Sahl, was a Persian Christian physician of the ninth century who belonged to the Academy of Gundishapur and died in 869 CE. He is remembered for the Aqrabadhin, a medical book on antidotes divided into twenty-two volumes. It is described as one of the first books of its kind and possibly the earliest antidotary to influence Islamic medicine. The work stayed popular until a later version by Ibn al-Tilmidh replaced it in the first half of the twelfth century. The source gives no birth date and little about his personal life.