I have heard his book through a lofty chain of transmission.
Those who died the same year as Ibn Mujāhid were: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mubashshir al-Wāsiṭī; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ashʿarī; Aḥmad, the son of the hadith master Baqī ibn Makhlad; Muḥammad ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān al-Jīzī; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Madanī.
122 – Ibn al-Anbārī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Bashshār
The Imām, hadith master, and versatile linguist, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Bashshār ibn al-Anbārī—the Qurʾān-reciter and grammarian—
was born in the year 272 AH (1).
While still a boy, and under his father’s attentive care, he studied with Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Kudaymī, Ismāʿīl the Judge, Aḥmad ibn al-Haytham al-Bazzāz, Abū al-ʿAbbās Thaʿlab, and many others.
He also learned directly from his father and went on to compile large, multi-volume works, distinguished by their sincerity, sound religious content, and his prodigious memory.