He is said to have died six months after Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Iskāfī (d. 240/854), another Muʿtazilī theologian, who wrote an exposition of the views of Burghūth and other followers of the Jabriyya (Ibn Nadīm, 213). According to Ibn Nadīm, Burghūth died in either 240/854 or 241/855. Based on a report by Ibn Taymiyya (1/206), Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā was called to debate with Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal during the miḥna (inquisition).

Since Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā was a follower of al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Najjār, the Burghūthiyya were said to have been one of the branches of th…