al-Abdi ibn Manda · Islam Museum

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Abu Bakr al-Naysaburi Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad

Summary

The hafiz Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Manda al-'Abdi, the famous hafiz and author of Tarikh Isbahan; one of the trustworthy hafizes of a great house from which many scholars came — the mother of this hafiz and her mother Barra bint Muhammad were of the Banu 'Abdallah, so he was named for his maternal uncles. ¹

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “al-Abdi ibn Manda”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-manda-al-abdi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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