أبو بكر ابن منجويه الأصبهاني

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At a glance

Roles: Scholar
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani

Summary

Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Manjuwayh al-Isbahani al-Yazdi, the hafiz, resident and muhaddith of Nishapur; he composed many works and travelled as far as Bukhara, transmitting from Abu Bakr al-Isma'ili, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Muqri' and their generation; Shaykh al-Islam said he was the most retentive person he ever saw; he compiled works on the two Sahihs, Tirmidhi's Jami' and Abu Dawud's Sunan. ¹

Sources

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 233

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islam.museum contributors. “أبو بكر ابن منجويه الأصبهاني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-manjuwayh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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