and ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shabbūyah the tailor, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Maʿdānī, Abū ʿUthmān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Warqāʾ, Shujāʿ al-Maṣqallī, and many others. Among his own sons were Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, ʿUbayd Allāh, and Isḥāq.
Al-Bāṭirqānī (1) said, “Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda—the Imam of the imams in hadith, may Allah envelop him in His good pleasure—(2) narrated to us.”
Al-Ḥākim said, “We met in Bukhara in 361 AH, and by then his growth was plainly evident. He later came to us in Nishapur in 375 AH on his journey home. Our shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ remarked, ‘The Banū Manda are the standard-bearers of the hadith masters, in earlier times and in ours; do you not behold the natural talent of Abū ʿAbd Allāh?’ (3)”
It was also said that when the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym heard Ibn Manda mentioned, he exclaimed, “He was a mountain among mountains!” (4) Such is Abū Nuʿaym’s testimony despite the severe estrangement that existed between them (5).