Abū al-Muṭahhar al-Azdī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad (d. first half of the 5th/11th century), a writer and poet. Abū al-Muṭahhar's fame is in fact solely based on his work Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī. However even his existence is in some doubt, and one may legitimately ask whether the book and its author were not actually invented by one of the maj…