Ibn Manda
Ibn Manda | |
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| Born | 310–1 A.H |
| Died | 395 A.H/1004–5 C.E[1] |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali |
| Main interest(s) | Hadith |
| Notable work(s) | Kitāb ma’rifat al-sahāba |
Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin Isḥāq Ibn Manda (d. 395/1004–5) was a famous Isfahani Sunni Hadith scholar of Persian[2] origin.
Overview
Ibn Manda was born in 310 AH to a famous Iṣfahānī family of ḥadīt̲h̲ scholars and historians which was active for nearly three centuries. He collected an extraordinary amount of hadith whilst on a journey throughout the Muslim world during which he supposedly encountered 1,700 shuyūkh and returned to Isfahān with roughly forty loads of books.[3] He died in Dhul-Hijja in 395 AH (1005 CE).[4]
Dispute with Abu Nu'aym
Ibn Manda is reported to have been involved in a vicious dispute with his fellow ‘Muhaddith of the Age” and hometown rival, Abu Nu’aym al-Isfahani (d. 1039), due to their differences in madhhab and theological issues. He denounced Abu Nu’aym on account of his supposed leanings toward kalām and banished him from the great mosque of Isfahān, which was then dominated by Ibn Manda's Hanbali faction. Yet Ibn Manda taught hadīth to, and had an extremely close teacher-pupil relationship with, Abū Mansur Ma’mar ibn Ahmad al-Isfahānī (d. 1027), who was a prominent Hanbali Sufi and contemporary of Abu Nu’aym in Isfahan who praised Ibn Manda as the model scholar of his age.[5]
See also
References
- ^ A.C. Brown, Jonathan (2009). Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Foundations of Islam). Oneworld Publications. p. 39. ISBN 978-1851686636.
- ^ Frye, ed. by R.N. (1975). The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). London: Cambridge U.P. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.
{{cite book}}:|first1=has generic name (help) - ^ Lucas, Scott (2004), Constructive Critics, Ḥadīth Literature, and the Articulation of Sunnī Islam, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, ISBN 90 04 13319 4
- ^ Brief Biographies of Eminent Hadith Scholars
- ^ Karamustafa, Ahmet T. (2007) Sufism: The Formative Period, University of California Press, ISBN 978 0 520 25268 4
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