Many people went on to recite the Qurʾān under him: among them ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Abī Hāshim, Abū ʿĪsā Bakkār, al-Ḥasan al-Muṭṭawʿī, Abū Bakr al-Shadhāʾī, Abū al-Faraj al-Shanabūdhī, Abū Aḥmad al-Sāmarī, Abū ʿAlī ibn Ḥabash, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Bawwāb, and Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad al-Qazzāz.

Those who transmitted ḥadith from him include: Ibn Shāhīn, al-Dāraquṭnī, Abū Bakr ibn Shādhān, Abū Ḥafṣ al-Kattānī, Abū Muslim al-Kātib, and a number of others.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said, “Ibn Mujāhid surpassed all of his peers through the breadth of his knowledge, the keenness of his understanding, the truthfulness of his speech, and the evident devotion of his worship (1).”

He assumed the teaching chair while Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Kisāʾī was still alive (2).

Ibn Abī Hāshim related that a man once asked Ibn Mujāhid, “Why do you not choose a single reading for yourself?” He replied, “We are in greater need of applying ourselves to preserve what our imams have handed down than we are of making personal selections (3).”

It was also said that Ibn Mujāhid was a gracious, refined man who had an excellent knowledge of music (4).

In his study circle there were eighty-four reciters who examined and corrected the people (5).

He passed away in Shaʿbān of the year 324 AH.