Ibn al-Madini said: “Ibn Ishaq would label every report from Mujahid as coming from Mujahid ibn Jubayr (1). He was the freedman (mawla) of Qays ibn al-Saib ibn Abi al-Saib, and al-Saib had been a business partner of the Prophet ﷺ.

Ibn Saʿd (2) stated: ‘His patron was Qays.’

Al-Bukhari and Muslim expressed the same view as Ahmad.

Al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Misri (3) told the Egyptians, ‘There is another Mujahid ibn Jabr whom Ibn Yunus (4) mentions.’

Al-Aʿmash related that Mujahid said: ‘Had I mastered the recitation of Ibn Masʿud, I would not have needed to ask Ibn ʿAbbas about many verses of the Quran that I did ask him about (5).’ Ibn ʿUyaynah transmitted it from him.

Matar al-Warraq reported from Qatadah: ‘The most knowledgeable person still alive concerning what is lawful and unlawful is al-Zuhri, and the most knowledgeable still alive concerning the Quran is Mujahid (5).’

Ibn Saʿd (6) said: ‘Mujahid is reliable, a jurist, a scholar, and a prolific transmitter of hadith.’

Ibn Khirash remarked: ‘The reports Mujahid narrates from ʿAli and ʿAʾishah are mursal.’

Al-Thawri, through Ibrahim ibn Muhajir, reported from Mujahid: ‘At times Ibn ʿUmar would hold my stirrup for me, and at times Ibn ʿAbbas would slip his fingers under my armpits (7).’

Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujahid, said: ‘I do not know which …’