I know of no family among the ḥadith transmitters comparable to the house of Banū Mandah: the craft of narration remained in their line from the caliphate of al-Muʿtaṣim until well after 630 AH. We have already mentioned that Abū ʿAbd Allāh’s father, Shaykh Abū Yaʿqūb, died in 341 AH; he related ḥadith from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿĀṣim and others.
The last person to transmit from Abū ʿAbd Allāh was his son ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, who lived to a great age and passed away in 475 AH.
Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb said in his book al-Sābiq: “Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyān al-Iṣbahānī authorized it to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Jawwāl narrated to me; Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ṣibghī narrated to us; Yaʿqūb al-Qazwīnī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Iṣbahānī narrated to us; Suʿayr ibn al-Khims narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh who said:
‘Whoever wishes to meet Allah tomorrow as a Muslim should guard these five prayers wherever the call to them is given.’ ⦗1⦘
Yaḥyā ibn Mandah said: “The mother of Abū ʿAbd Allāh’s children was Asmāʾ bint Abī Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaybānī; she also had two daughters by Abū Manṣūr al-Iṣbahānī.”