- Ibn Manda — Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad
He was the shaykh, imām, and ḥadith master Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā, son of Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, son of the great ḥadith memoriser (ḥāfiẓ) Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, son of the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda al-ʿAbdī al-Iṣbahānī.
Born: Shawwāl 434 AH.
His father started him young, having him hear a large body of traditions from Abū Bakr ibn Rīdhah, Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Faḍāḍ.
Pursuing the discipline himself, he heard from Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd al-Thaqafī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Jaṣṣāṣ, Ibrāhīm ibn Manṣūr, the grandson of Baḥruyah, Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī the ḥadith master, and many others. He reported extensively from his father and from his uncle Abū al-Qāsim. From Baghdad he received written authorisation from Abū Ṭālib ibn Ghailān and a number of other scholars. He held dictation sessions, authored works, and compiled collections.
Among those who narrated from him are: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Anmāṭī, Ibn Nāṣir, ʿAlī ibn Abī Turāb, Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī, Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Khashshāb the grammarian, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭarsūsī, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, and many others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “A shaykh of lofty standing, abundant merit, vast transmission, and trustworthy.”