Abū Mikhnaf Lūṭ b. Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd b. Mikhnaf al-Azdī (d. 157/774), of Kufa, in Iraq, was an early Muslim historian. His grandfather Mikhnaf b. Sulaym al-Azdī, who gave his name to this Azdī clan to which Abū Mikhnaf belonged, was considered a Companion of the Prophet. He ranked among the dignitaries of his kinfolk of the Azdī tribe and so, accompanied by two of his brothers, he joined the Azdī delegation that went to Mecca to meet the Prophet and pay homage to him and to