ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda al-ʿAbdī, the Isfahani; a tutor by profession and, at the same time, a grocer (1). He was nicknamed Kullah and was a kinsman of the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda.
He narrated from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Jamīl (in the Musnad of Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ).
He also transmitted from Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jishnas, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Shahriyār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda, and others.
Those who reported from him include Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād and Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ al-Ṣayrafī; the latter heard from him in 450 AH and afterwards (the Musnad of Ibn Manīʿ).
He died in Ṣafar, 453 AH.
44 – Ibn Ghazw ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazw ibn Muḥammad al-Nahāwandī
The shaykh, scholar, and reliable authority, Abū Muslim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazw ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Nahāwandī, the perfume-seller.
He left a small fascicle (juzʾ) which we received through the transmission of al-Silafī.
He narrated from Aḥmad ibn Zanbīl al-Nahāwandī, Aḥmad ibn Firās al-Makkī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Raffāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Bakrān al-Rāzī, Abū Aḥmad al-Faraḍī, Ḥamzah ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Ṭabarī, and many others besides.
Among those who received ḥadīths from him were his son Abū Ṭāhir al-Muṭahhar, Abū al-Fatḥ al-Muẓaffar ibn Shujāʿ al-Hamadhānī, and Abū Bakr al-Akhbārī.