Ibn Mujahid al-Ta'i, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ya`qub ibn Mujahid, Abu `Abd Allah al-Basri al-Baghdadi al-Maliki (death. 368).

A companion of al-Ash`ari and Sahl al-Tustari, he took al-Bukhari's Sahih from Abu Zayd al-Marwazi and received from Ibn Abi Zayd a license to narrate his books al-Nawadir, and al-Ziyadat. Among his prominent students were al-Qadi Abu Bakr al-Baqillani, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, and Abu Bakr ibn `Udhra. Al-Qadi `Iyad mentions that among his books are a work on the principles of the Law according to the Maliki school; a famous epistle on the doctrine and beliefs of Ahl al-Sunna.