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?a?an, Samuel (Samuel ha-Levi Ibn ?akim)

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Egyptian rabbi of the sixteenth century, first at Cairo, subsequently at Jerusalem (Levi ibn ?abib, Responsa, Nos. 10, 110; Conforte, "?ore ha-Dorot," s. "Ashkenazi"; Joseph Taytazak, "She'erit Yehudah," ed. Salonica, 1604, p. 67b). ?a?an was a pupil of Elijah Mizra?i (Responsa, No. 15). He edited and printed Isaac bar Sheshet's responsa at Constantinople (1546). He is quoted in Caro's "Bet Yosef," in Shul?an 'Aruk, ?oshen Mishpa?, � 36, and in Moses di Trani's Responsa, part , No. 67. R. Tam ibn Ya?ya, to whom he and Jacob Berab (whose adversary he subsequently became) addressed a question from Cairo, calls him simply "Samuel ?a?an" (: see his responsa, "Tummat Yesharim," Nos. 100, 190, Venice, 1621; Taytazak, s.). It appears from the passages quoted above that he was among the foremost men of his time; but no independent works by him are extant.