THE LIFE AND WORKS OF AB？ ABDALL？H IBN MANDAH (d. 395/1005)

Hadith narration has become a tradition in some families and has been transferred to generations for centuries. One of the scholars whose family has such a tradition and who was born in Isfahan and died here again, was one of the famous figures, historians and theologians of the hijri 4th century is Ab？ Abdallah Ibn Mandah (d. 395/1005). The reason for selecting Ibn Mandah as the subject of our research is the lack of an academic work about him in Turkey. In our study, we aimed to give information about his life, teachers, students and works. Ibn Mandah, who was a member of a family of four hundred years of hadith narration, followed the path of the muhaddis, first benefiting from the scholars in his own country and then arranging various scientific centers. Ibn Mandah, who spent half his life on scientific travels, has gained important works in the field of tafsir, hadith, kalam, histories, history and biography with his knowledge. It is of great importance, in particular, that Kitab al-？man narratives about almost all of the mythical subjects and is original in terms of the style and method of the author. In addition, his work, Fath al-bab f？ al-kuna wa al-qab, was one of the very rare information source in which he introduced some famous persons who were well known with their nicknames beginning from the priod of companions of prophet Muhammad up to their own time