| Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad | |
| Birth Place: | Pechina, Andalusia (modern-day Spain) |
| Occupation: | Navigator, Explorer, Writer |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Nationality: | Andalusian |
| Period: | 9th century |
| Genre: | Travel literature |
| Notableworks: | Account of his voyages to the Atlantic Ocean |
Khashkhash ibn Saeed ibn Aswad (ar|خَشْخَاش ٱبْن سَعِيد ٱبْن أَسْوَد, ; born in Pechina, Andalusia) was an Andalusian navigator.
According to Muslim historian Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi (871-957), Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land (, Arabic: أرض مجهولة). In his book The Meadows of Gold, al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera) sailed into the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.[1] [2]
Ali al-Masudi, in his historical account The Meadows of Gold (947 CE), wrote:
The same passage, in Aloys Sprenger's 1841 English translation, is interpreted by some authors[3] to imply that Ali al-Masudi regarded the story of Khoshkhash to be a fanciful tale: