and he heard it from Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām.
He passed away in 310 AH, having lived a little over ninety years.
107 – Ibn Manda, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAbdī *
The eminent imām, master memorizer, and meticulous scholar: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Manda—Manda’s personal name was Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn Sanda ibn Buṭṭa ibn Astundār (1) ibn Jahār-bukht al-ʿAbdī, their client from Isfahan. He is the grandfather of the prolific author and ḥadith authority Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad.
He was born sometime in the 220s AH, during the lifetime of their grandfather Manda.
He learned ḥadith from Ismāʿīl ibn Mūsā al-Suddī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiya al-Jumaḥī, Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Luwayn, Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Hannād ibn al-Sarī, Muḥammad ibn Bashshār, Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj, Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt, and their peers in Kūfa, Basra, and Isfahan; he gathered traditions and produced written works.
Among those who transmitted from him were the judge Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī, Abū Shaykh, Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamza, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, his son Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad, and a host of others from the teachers of the ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym whom he met in Isfahan.