, the name of several Muslim scholars: (1) Muḥammad b. Aṣbag̲h̲ b. Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Nāṣiḥ b. ʿAṭāʾ from Cordova (born 4 Rabīʿ I 255/20 February 869, died 306/918-19 during the raid of Badr b. Aḥmad). A ḥadīt̲h̲ scholar who had as teachers Baḳī b. Mak̲h̲lad [ q.v.], Muḥammad b. Waḍḍāḥ, Aṣbag̲h̲ b. K̲h̲alīl, al-K̲h̲us̲h̲anī [ q.v.] and Ibn al-Ḳazzāz. He is said to have been proficient in grammar and uncommon language ( g̲h̲arīb ) and followed individual judgment ( raʾy ). If we may believe his biographer Ibn al-Faraḍī, he was versed in different kinds …