At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Mardawayh ibn Furak, Abu Bakr the hafiz of Isfahan — great imam, muhaddith and mufassir, author of the copious Musnad Tafsir, the Musnad and Tarikh Isbahan; among the imams and abundant hafizes of hadith; he died at Isfahan in Ramadan 410. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Isfahan
People and things also explored
Jameh Mosque of Isfahan· Conquest of Isfahan (21 AH)· death of al-Bahlawan — the Isfahan mazhab wars, the Rayy fitna, Tughril breaks free· The Jalali calendar reform· The killing of Mardawij ibn Ziyad· Mas'ud ibn Mahmud Storms Isfahan· Sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah takes the Batiniyya fortress at Isfahan and kills Ibn Attash in 500· Mungli killed; Aghlamish inherits his domains
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.294
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “أحمد بن موسى بن مردويه أبو بكر الحافظ الأصبهاني”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-mardawayh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.