Fawaid Ibn Mandah
- Author died
- 395 AH
- Editions
- Maktabat al-Qurʾān
Fawaid Ibn Mandah (Benefits of Ibn Mandah) is a hadith compendium by the Isfahan-based hadith master Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Mandah (310–395 AH / 922–1005 CE) that gathers hadiths and narrations transmitted from his numerous teachers .
Author and Background
The author, Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Mandah al-Abdi al-Isbahani, was born in 310 AH (or 311 AH) and began hearing hadith in 318 AH . He embarked on extensive travels across the Islamic world beginning around 330 AH, remaining on his scholarly journeys for about forty years and studying in centers such as Isfahan, Nishapur, Baghdad, Damascus, Mecca, Egypt, Bukhara, Balkh, and Merv . Ibn Mandah reported transmitting from approximately 1,700 teachers, returning to Isfahan with voluminous written collections . He died in Dhu al-Qada 395 AH .
Content and Transmission
The work belongs to the fawaid genre of hadith literature, which consists of selected narrations, rare chains of transmission (isnad), and notable reports gathered by traditionists from their direct auditions .
The narrations and dictations of Ibn Mandah were preserved and transmitted by his scholarly household, notably his sons Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Mandah and Abu Amr Abd al-Wahhab ibn Mandah . Later traditionists received and cited these transmissions through continuous chains; Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani cataloged several parts of the fawaid and related family transmissions traced back through descendants of Ibn Mandah .
Manuscripts and Publication
Manuscript fragments and transmissions associated with the fawaid of the Ibn Mandah family are preserved in archival collections, including the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus . The text of Fawaid Ibn Mandah was edited by Majdi al-Sayyid Ibrahim and published by Maktabat al-Quran in Cairo .
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