IBN AL-SA’IGH, nickname, meaning "son of the goldsmith," given
to two Copts in references of the fourteenth century. They are
probably the same person. In 1325-1326 the monk Tuma ibn al-
Sa’igh copied a manuscript of the four Gospels translated from
the Greek. This manuscript was in Jerusalem in 1903, at the
Copts' Dayr Mar Jirjis, and was described by Hanna Marta
(Meistermann, 1904, p. 125). L. Cheikho (1903) identified it
with another Egyptian manuscript dated 1227. But in 1915 when G.
Graf cataloged the library, it had disappeared. In October 1340
the monk Tuma, nicknamed Ibn al-Sa’igh, is mentioned at
Damascus. In the company of Anba Butrus, metropolitan of the
Copts in Jerusalem and Syria, he was collating a manuscript of
the four Gospels that had just been copied by the Coptic priest
Jirjis Abu al-Fadl ibn Lutfallah (to be read as: Jirjis ibn Abi
al-Mufaddal) from the original manuscript of al-As‘ad ibn
al-‘Assal. This is now the famous manuscript in the Coptic
Museum, Cairo (Bible 90; Graf, no. 180; Sim