Hilal al-Sabi'
Arab historian, bureaucrat and writer (c.969–1056) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Abūʾl-Ḥusayn Hilāl b. Muḥassin b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣābīʾ (Arabic: ابو الحسين هلال بن محسن بن ابراهيم الصابئ) (born: 358 A.H./c. 969 A.D., died: 447-448 A.H./1056 A.D.) (aged 90 lunar) was a historian, bureaucrat, and writer of Arabic. Born into a family of Sabian bureaucrats, al-Ṣābi converted to Islam in 402-403 A.H/1012 AD.[1] First working under the Buyid amir Ṣamṣām al-Dawla, he later became the Director of the Chancery[1] under Baha' al-Daula's vizier Fakhr al-Mulk.