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ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥāsib was an
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who lived in the first half of the 10th century. Ibn an-Nadīm lists the following titles by him: #''Kitāb fī Ṣunūf aḍ-ḍarb wa-l-qisma'' ("Book on the Art of Multiplication and Division") #''Šarḥ kitāb Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḫwārizmī fi l-ğabr'' ("Commentary on the Book of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḫwārizmī on Algebra") #''Šarḥ kitāb Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḫwārizmī fi al-ğamʿ wa-t-tafrīq'' ("Commentary on the Book of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḫwārizmī on Addition and Subtraction")


References

*Fuat Sezgin. ''Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums - Band V: Mathematik''. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974. 10th-century mathematicians Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate Year of birth missing Year of death missing Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world {{Astronomer-stub