Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad

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Khashkhāsh ibn Sa`īd ibn Aswad (Arabic خشخاش بن سعيد بن اسود) (born in Pechina, Andalusia) was a Moorish admiral.

According to Muslim historian Abul-Hassan ali ibn Al Houssain al-Masudi (871-957), Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land (Ard Marjhoola). In his book Muruj adh-dhahab wa maadin aljawhar (The fields of gold and the mines of jewels) Al-Masudi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures. According to some, Christopher Columbus had access to Al-Masudi's sea charts at the Spanish royal court. However, in the academic world this theory does not have many followers.