He died in 469 AH, after falling from the minaret to his death. (1)
- Abū ʿAmr ibn Manda — ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbdī
The shaykh, ḥadīth scholar, reliable authority, and major transmitter, Abū ʿAmr (2) ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of the ḥadīth master Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, son of the ḥadīth master Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda al-ʿAbdī al-Iṣfahānī. He was one of three brothers and the youngest of his two brothers, the ḥadīth master ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (3) and ʿUbayd Allāh. (4)
He received ḥadīth from his father—extensively so—as well as from Abū Isḥāq ibn Khurshīd Qūlah, Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Sulamī, Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Yowah, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad the jurist, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jurjānī, Abū Bakr ibn Mardawayh, and numerous others in Iṣfahān; from Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ṣayrafī and his contemporaries in Naysābūr; and he attended study circles in Shīrāz, Hamadhān, Mecca, and Rayy.
He used to undertake business journeys, and several transmitted fascicles preserve valuable notes from him.
Those who narrated from him include al-Muʾtaman al-Sājī, his son Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb the ḥadīth master, Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Taymī, Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāzī, his brother Khālid ibn ʿUmar, and Abū Saʿd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn