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# مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 309.e118.3

مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار 309.e118.3

- **Language:** Arabic

### [309.e118.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar.309.e118.3)

ومن أخبار الخلفاء أن الرشيد اعتل علة صعبة لم يجد فيها طب الأطباء، فقال له أبو عمر الأعجمي: يا أمير المؤمنين!، بالهند طبيب يقال له: منكه هو أوحد عبادهم وفلاسفتهم، فلو بعثت إليه لعل الله يهبك الشفاء على يده.

> Among the reports about the caliphs is that al-Rashīd fell gravely ill with an illness in which the physicians' medicine was of no avail. Abū ʿUmar al-Aʿjamī said to him: 'O Commander of the Faithful! In India there is a physician called Mankah, the foremost of their ascetics and philosophers; if you were to send for him, perhaps God would grant you healing at his hands.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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