JABBIR IBN HAYYAN WHO WAS A CHEMIST OF HIS TIME DID NOT TEACH CHEMISTRY TO EVERYONE Part I

  JABBIR IBN HAYYAN WHO WAS A CHEMIST OF HIS TIME, DID NOT TEACH CHEMISTRY TO EVERYONE

Part-i

Jabbir Ibn Hayyan, a pioneering chemist of his time, did not teach chemistry to everyone. For this he took rigorous exams. A student, Sadruddin, traveled a long distance on foot and came to study chemistry with him. Jabbir looked at it carefully and then took the bottle out of his laboratory. He said to Sadruddin, "I will teach you chemistry on the condition that my friend's tribe lives far away from here. They have enmity with another tribe and they want me to prepare some poison for their enemy." One drop of which will kill all the people. Sadruddin replied, "Of course I want to study chemistry, but I will never do such a thing."

Jabbir hugged him and said, "I wanted to see if you want to study science for the betterment of humanity or to harm it." Jabbir started teaching him and transferred all his knowledge to Sadruddin's chest. When the last hour of Jabbir came, Caliph Mamun Al-Rasheed stood beside him and said: Jabbir, you are taking your knowledge with you, who are you leaving for us? I gave up my life. That is to say, our scientists were humane, working for the good of humanity. Then this golden chain was broken, Baghdad was looted, the library of the House of Wisdom was sacrificed to the river Tigris and we made the government a source of luxury.

Inventions in chemistry:

Before Muslims, alchemy was no more important than magic. But he made chemistry a useful art, astonishing the world by experimenting with this knowledge. Khalid bin Yazid, Jabbir bin Hayyan, Razi, Zulnoon Misri and Ibn Wahshiya were prominent chemists in this art. However, Jabbir, under the guidance of his teacher Imam Jafar Sadiq (may Allah have mercy on him), made this art alive and well. 200 years after his death, he was discovered demolishing houses near Bab al-Mashq in Kufa.

Jabbir gave a new direction to Greek medicine with the following chemical operations (processes) which led to the development of the art of pharmacology.  Issue: Mixing a frozen substance that has the ability to dissolve with another substance is called dissolution. The frozen substance that takes on a liquid form is called a solution. Evaporation has been used for various purposes, such as evaporation of medicine.

Continued in Part-II