Abu Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib, also al-Khaseb, Albubather in Latin, was a Persian physician and astrologer of the 9th century. He wrote in Persian and Arabic and is best known for his work De nativitatibus which was translated into Latin by Canonicus Salio in Padua 1218, and was also translated into Hebrew; the book had many reprints till 1540. Works See also List of Iranian scientists References Sources Al-fihrist by Ibn al-Nadim, p. 276 and Commentary, p. 131. H. Suter : Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (32, 1900) Nachtrage (162, 1902) Encyclopedia of Islam, II, 274, 1916. Year of birth unknown 9th-century deaths 9th-century Iranian physicians Medieval Iranian astrologers Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate