Khalid brought a group of graduates from a school to...

Khalid brought a group of graduates from a school to Damascus in order to learn about chemistry from them one of the students was known to be a Syriac or a Roman named either Marianusor Maryanus, who taught chemistry to Khalid and also wrote a book for him. When Khalid gained some knowledge of chemistry, he decided to translate chemistry books. Together with another man called Stephen, they translated the first translated book in chemistry and called it Kimiya (chemistry or alchemy).

Ibn Nadeem, in a book called Al-Fehrest wrote that the first person whose books on chemistry , astronomy and medicine were translated by him, was Khalid Ibn…