Flourished: circa 925, Baghdad (Iraq); He wrote an influential astronomical handbook with tables (zīj) based upon Indian sources. famous for a zīj entitled "Naẓm al-`iqd," completed after his death by his student al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Hishām al-Madā’inī, who published it in 949/950. This non-extant work is referred to by several later authors, including Ibn Yūnus (d. 1009) and Ṣā`id al-Andalusī (d. 1070). [Ragep]
GAS VI.179-80; cf. 50-0