HADITH AND SCIENCE

Hadith of Prophet Muhammad like " If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise" and " The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim" show importance of knowledge in Islam.^[48]. Science is derived from Latin word "Knowledge".

Jabir Ibn Haiyan, prepared the most important industrail chemical Sulphuric Acid . Khawarizmi was one of the greatest mathematician who in the words of Phillip Hitti, author of "The History of Arabs", influenced mathematical thought to a greater extent than any other medieval writer. Avicenna or Ibn Sina was a great medical scientist who penned down the historical "Canon of Medicine which in the words of Dr. William Osler, has remained "a medical bible for a longer time than any other work".Alhazen or Ibn Al Haytham discussed the density of the atmosphere and developed a relation between it and the height. He also studied atmospheric refraction. In his writing, one can see a clear development of the scientific methods as developed and applied by the Muslims and comprising the systematic observation of physical phenomena and their linking together into a scientific theory. This was a major breakthrough in scientific methodology, as distinct from guess and gesture, and placed scientific pursuits on a sound foundation comprising systematic relationship between observation, hypothesis and verification.The Latin translation of his main work, Kitab-al-Manadhir, exerted a great influence upon Western science e.g. on the work of Roger Bacon and Kepler.Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi was described by Pietro Argallata (died 1423) as "without doubt the chief of all surgeons". Jaques Delechamps (1513-1588), another French surgeon, made extensive use of At-Tasrif in his elaborate commentary, confirming the great prestige of El Zahrawi throughout the Middle Ages and up to the Renaissance.^[49].