After his death, his son Ban Gu (32-92 AD) used the historical materials collected by his father to compile The History of the Former Han Dynasty. Ban Gu's younger sister Ban Zhao took up where he left off by writing Ba Biao and Tianwen Zhi.
班固死時，《漢書》中的八表和〈天文志〉尚未完成，其妹班昭將之補齊。班固開斷代史之先河