  We present here an Arabic report about supernova 1006 (SN 1006) written by
the famous Persian scholar Ibn Sina (Lat. Avicenna, AD 980-1037), which was not
discussed in astronomical literature before. The short observational report
about a new star is part of Ibn Sina's book called al-Shifa', a work about
philosophy including physics, astronomy, and meteorology. We present the Arabic
text and our English translation. After a detailed discussion of the dating of
the observation, we show that the text specifies that the transient celestial
object was stationary and/or tail-less ("a star among the stars"), that it
"remained for close to three months getting fainter and fainter until it
disappeared", that it "threw out sparks", i.e. it was scintillating and very
bright, and that the color changed with time. The information content is
consistent with the other Arabic and non-Arabic reports about SN 1006. Hence,
it is quite clear that Ibn Sina refers to SN 1006 in his report, given as an
example for transient celestial objects in a discussion of Aristotle's
"Meteorology". Given the wording and the description, e.g. for the color
evolution, this report is independent from other reports known so far.
