[1] In 1015 (AH 406), Mujāhid launched an expedition to conquer the island of Sardinia in the name of the caliph al-Muʿayṭī.
He landed with 120 ships and occupied the southern coastal plain, but was defeated by Pisan and Genoese forces from Italy.
The following year he returned with a large force of cavalry, defeated the army of the judge of Cagliari and fortified the conquered area.
The German chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg wrote that he sent a sack of chestnuts to the pope to illustrate the number of Muslim soldiers he would unleash on Christendom, but that Benedict VIII sent back a sack of millet representing the number of Christian soldiers that would meet them.
[4] In 1033, Abu ʾl-Ḳāsim, the ruler of Seville, put forward an impostor claiming he was the caliph Hishām II, who had actually died in 1013.
Mujāhid accepted the nominal authority of the fake Hishām II, probably as part of a series of marital alliances with the Abbadid dynasty ruling Seville.
[1] The peace of his reign was broken only towards the end of his life, when he temporarily occupied Murcia and also became preoccupied by a dispute with his younger son, Ḥasan.
His interest in this last practice may have stemmed from his name, since one of the most influential students of qirāʾāt was Ibn Mujāhid (died 936).