 Ibn Sa'd's complete biography of Muqatil is "The one who had a tafsir, He related from al-Dahhak ibn Muzahim and Ata ibn Abi Rabah, students of Ibn Abbas.Some of the people of hadith were wary of his hadith and objected to them,"  Ibn Sa'd describes him as one of the Fuqaha' and Hadith scholars in Khurasan and does not give him a date of death.There is however unanimous consensus that Muqatil was not a scholar.