The travels of the Muhaddith, Al-Hāfidh, Al-Imām, Abu ʿAbdillāh Muhammad Ibn Ishāq Ibn Yahyā Ibn Mandah Al-Asbahānī (310 – 395 H):
In 330 H, aged just twenty, he travelled to Naysabūr and reached Abu Hāmid Ibn Bilāl, and he wrote 1,000 chapters in knowledge from Abul-ʿAbbās Al-Aṣamm.
Then he journeyed to Baghdād and studied under Abu Jaʿfar Ibn Al-Bakhtarī and Ismaʿeel Aṣ-Ṣaffār.
In Damascus, he met Ibrāheem Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sālih Al-Qantari and others of that calibre. In Tarābulus, he met Khaythamah Ibn Sulaymān Al-Qurashi. In Makkah, he met Abu Saʿeed Al-Aʿrābī.
In Egypt, he met Abu Ṭāhir Al-Madīnī. He took from a group of scholars in Bukhāra, Marw and Balkh—and he travelled between several other territories in pursuit of knowledge, such as Jerusalem, Gaza, and Khurasān.
He took from other great scholars of the age such as Abu Ahmad Al-ʿAssāl (d. 349 H), Abu Hātim Ibn Hibbān (d. 354 H) and Aṭ-Ṭabarānī (d. 360 H).
Throughout this time, which lasted over 40 years, he penned in his own hand, a large quantity of books. Then he returned to his homeland of Isfahān as a scholar. He got married, and Allah blessed him with children.
It is said that when he returned to Isfahān, he entered it and along with him were forty loads of books and manuscripts.
Ibn Mandah stated: “I acquired knowledge and wrote from 1,700 scholars.” (See Tadhkiratul-Huffādh, 3/1032)
Ibn Mandah (may Allah’s mercy be upon him) is the author of many excellent books such as Kitāb Al-Imān, Kitāb At-Tawheed wa Maʿrifat Asmā’ Allāh wa Ṣifātihi, Ar-Radd ʿAlal-Jahmiyyah, At-Tārīkh and others.
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