Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad
Khashkhash ibn Saeed ibn Aswad was a Moorish navigator of Islamic Iberia.
According to Muslim historian Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi, Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land. In his book The Meadows of Gold, al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba sailed into the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.
Ali al-Masudi, in The Book of Golden Meadows, wrote:
The same passage, in Aloys Sprenger's 1841 English translation, is interpreted by some authors to imply that Ali al-Masudi regarded the story of Khoshkhash to be a fanciful tale:
