At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Mandah, Abu Abd Allah al-Hafiz al-Isfahani, from a family known for hadith and memorisation. He died in Isfahan in Safar of the year 396 AH. 1
His travels and works
He heard from the companions of Abu Masʿud, from Yunus ibn Habib and from Abu al-Abbas al-Mahbubi. He travelled through many lands, wrote a great deal, and compiled a history and a book of shaykhs. 1
A testimony to his memory
Abu al-Abbas Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Muʿtazz, the hafiz, said: "I have never seen anyone with a better memory than Abu Abd Allah ibn Mandah." One day I asked him how many narrations a shaykh's hearing would comprise, and he said: "Five thousand." 1
Connections
- Died in
- Isfahan
People and things also explored
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan· Conquest of Isfahan (21 AH)· death of al-Bahlawan — the Isfahan mazhab wars, the Rayy fitna, Tughril breaks free· The Jalali calendar reform· The killing of Mardawij ibn Ziyad· Mas'ud ibn Mahmud Storms Isfahan· Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500· Mungli killed; Aghlamish inherits his domains
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.233
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islam.museum contributors. “أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق بن منده الحافظ الأصبهاني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-mandah-al-isfahani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.