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If by grinding we understand stopping at one place and fight for hours to gather EXP points, no, I never had to do that in Mother 1, or any of the other games.
In Mother 1 it's true you need to take the new friends to Magicant, but mainly to buy them their equipment (and get the candy from the cat in the case of Lloyd), but other than that... I mean, you will need to fight against some enemies anyway because by the time you get Lloyd and Paula join you, you haven't learned the Teleport psi power, so you'll have to walk your way out of Magicant, but you tank everything with Ninten anyway, Magicant enemies are piss easy for him at that point.
I died a lot in Mother 1, and the enemies in Mt. Itoi can be some tough motherfuckers, but nope, I never had to grind.... grinding is something I think when I remember when I played Dragon Quest 3, where I had to grind for days and days to get my goof girl reach level 20 to be able to make her of the Sage class.
In Mother 1, leveling up is fast as fuck, Lloyd and Ana reach level 20 fairly easy just by fighting along Ninten, you don't really need to worry much about protecting them, they get strong fast enough, especially Ana and her psi powers, and Teddy is a beast and the strongest physical character even at a low level, I remember I wrecked some shit on the underground cave prior to Mt. itoi with a low level Teddy (19 or so).
Most people finish Mother with Ninten around level 30 or 35, and the rest of the characters still on their 20s. It's not what I'd consider a "grindy" game to be honest.
By the way, Mt. itoi becomes piss easy once you get Eve's memory chip, just teleport to Magicant anytime you're low on HP by using the magican hook, heal up, and go back to Mt. itoi with the memory chip at full health to continue the battle.

I played it without the easy patch
I also beat it in japanese on the GBA the second time I played it