Ibn Habib
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Habib · Ibn Ḥabīb · ابن حبيب · ابو جعفر محمد بن حبيب
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
Third-century Arab scholar, author of a monograph on tribal names that coincide and diverge, adduced to show that the genealogists themselves catalogued the confusions Smith exploits.
and this is frequent in their genealogies, and the genealogists have set down independent books upon it, such as the book The Divergent and the Concordant among the Tribes by Abū Jaʻfar Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, who died in the middle of the third century of the Hijrah, printed at Göttingen in the year 1850.
[14] (1) Mukhtalif al-qabāʼil wa-muʼtalifuhā
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Cited for the sharply dualist position that the soul is a distinct embodied agent taken in sleep.
the spirit is the breath (nafas) passing to and fro in the human being, while the soul is something other than that, having two hands and two feet, a head and two eyes;