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132:. His son, Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā, is counted as the first prominent scholar in the family. Two sons of Yahya are known, Abd al-Rahmān (d. 320/932) and Muhammad (d. 301/913-14). Muhammad's son Ishāq (d. 341/953) was the father of the most renowned member of the family, 209:
Abu l-Qasim, ‘Abdal Rahman b. Muhammad b. Ishaq (381–470 AH: 991–1078 CE) (son). He traveled to Baghdad in 406/1015, and visited Wāsit, Mecca, Nishapur, Hamadhān and so on. He started teaching in 407/1016 and authored many works, among them, it seems, a
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Abū 'Abdullāh Ibn Mandah was focussed on attaining religious education since his childhood and went on to receive instructions from venerable scholars as Ja'fer b. Muhammad ibn Musa `Alawi, Ahmad b. Zakariyya Maqdisi, `Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Hanbal and
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may have been based on that of his grandfather, and the latter’s list of sahāba who lived 120 years may have been remade by him. The scholarly activity and renown of the family appear to have come to an end at this
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Ibn Manda married late in life and had four sons, ‘Abdallah (d. 1070), ‘Abdal-Rahmān (d. 1078), ‘Abdal-Wahhāb (d. 475/1082) and the little known ‘Abdal-Rahīm. Some of Abū Abdullāh's notable students were
172:(teachers) and returned to Isfahān with roughly forty loads of books. The Imām Abu Ishāq ibn Hamzah commented that he did not find a peer among scholars of the stature of Ibn Mandah. The Sheikh of 128:, while the man after whom the family was named was Ibrāhīm (Manda) b. al-Walīd b. Sanda b. Buṭṭa b. Ustandār al-Fērōzān b. D̲j̲ahārbuk̲h̲t. His death is placed during the caliphate of 247:(Refutation of the Jahmites), but it may be noted that his son, ‘Abdal-Rahmān, is credited with a similar if, apparently different work. Other additional works include 298: 217:
Abū Zakariyyā’, Yahyā ibn ‘Abdal Wahhab ibn Mandah (b. 434–511 AH/1043-1118 CE) (grandson). He enjoyed a lasting reputation as a historian. His
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in 395 A.H (September 1005 CE). What follows is a list of some of the individual scholars associated with the Ibn Manda family:
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His academic publications were primarily concerned history, biography and hadīth. He wrote on the history (seerah) of the
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and banished him from the great congregational mosque of Isfahān, which was then dominated by Ibn Manda's
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W. Madelung, "Abū No'aym Al-Esfahāni," Encyclopædia Iranica, I/4, pp. 354–355; available online at
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and contemporary of Abu Nu’aym in Isfahan who praised Ibn Manda as the model scholar of his age.
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scholars and historians which was active for nearly three centuries. The family descended from a
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and theological contentions. He denounced Abu Nu’aym on account of his supposed leanings toward
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Abū Abdullah, Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Mandah (310–395 AH: 922–1005 CE)
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Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Salam and, like his grandson, Yahyā b. ‘Abdal-Wahhāb, composed a
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Ibn Manda is reported to have been involved in a vicious dispute with his fellow ‘
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and some Prophetic traditions Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Salam, under the title of
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Constructive Critics, Ḥadīth Literature, and the Articulation of Sunnī Islam
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official, D̲j̲ahārbuk̲h̲t, said to have become a Muslim at the time of the
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Ma’mar ibn Ahmad al-Isfahānī (d. 1027), who was a prominent Hanbali
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Ishāq ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Mandah (d. 341 AH: 952 CE) (father)
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and Ibn Mardaway (Mardūya) (323-410/935-1019). Abu-Abdullāh died in
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to, and had an extremely close teacher-pupil relationship with,
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Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Mandah (d. 301 AH: 914 CE) (grandfather)
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in his travels during which he supposedly encountered 1,700
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Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World
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Islam
Hadith
Isfahani
Sunni
Hadith
Persian
Sassanian
Islamic Conquest of Persia
al-Mutasim
Ibn Hibban
Marw
Bukhara
Egypt
Nisapur
Mecca
Herat
Al-Hakim Nishapuri
Dhul-Hijja
Prophet Muhammad
Quran
Damascus
Muhaddith
Abu Nu’aym al-Isfahani
madhhab
kalām
Hanbali
Abū Mansur
Sufi
List of Islamic scholars
A.C. Brown, Jonathan

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