Al-Harith ibn Kalada
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Al-Hārith ibn Kalada (Arabic: الحارث بن كلدة; d. 13 AH/634–35) was an Arab physician and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1] He is said to have traveled to Gundeshapur in search of medical knowledge before the advent of Islam.[2]
Al-Harith ibn Kalada was Al-Harith ibn Kalada ibn Amr ibn Ilaj ibn Abi Salama ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Ghurarah ibn Auf ibn Thaqif al-Thaqafi. He was from Thaqif, from the people of Taif in the Hejaz region[3] and he was a freedman of Abu Bakr. He traveled to Persia, and studied medicine in the pre-Islamic era. Ibn Jaljul said:
Al-Harith learned medicine in Yemen and Persia, and he excelled in this profession and practiced medicine in Persia. He treated patients and earned money there, and the people of the city of Persia who saw him testified to his knowledge. He had treated some of their nobles, who recovered and gave him money and a slave girl named "Sumayya". Then his soul longed for his people, so he returned to Taif and his medicine became famous among the Arabs."[4][3]