Yala ibn Abbad
- Died
- 230 AH
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Ya'la ibn Abbad al-Kilabi (d. c. 230 AH / 845 CE) was a hadith transmitter associated with Basra and Baghdad, known for conveying short-chained narrations from early authorities.
Identity and Transmission
His lineage appears in biographical sources as Ya'la ibn Abbad al-Kilabi and as Ya'la ibn Abbad ibn Ya'la, while some reports give his father's name as 'Ubadah. He belonged to Basra, though al-Daraqutni also referred to him as a Baghdadi transmitter.
Ya'la transmitted hadith from Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj, Hammam ibn Yahya, other Basran scholars, and Abd al-Hakam, a companion of Anas ibn Malik. Among those who took narrations from him were Ishaq ibn Sayyar al-Nasibi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq, and broader Iraqi transmitters. Al-Harith ibn Abi Usama also studied under him, receiving a collection of elevated, short-chained narrations (awali) related through Abd al-Hakam from Anas ibn Malik.
Scholarly Standing
Hadith critics expressed divergent evaluations of his reliability. Ibn Hibban listed him in his compilation of reliable transmitters (al-Thiqat), noting that he made occasional errors. Conversely, al-Daraqutni graded him as weak (da'if). Al-Bazzar similarly pointed out that Ya'la related reports from Shu'ba and other teachers that lacked corroboration from other transmitters. Later scholars, including al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, confirmed that the biographical entries recorded under Ya'la ibn Abbad al-Kilabi and Ya'la ibn Abbad ibn Ya'la refer to the same individual.
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List of Works
Juz Ya'la ibn Abbad (also known as Nuskhat Ya'la ibn Abbad) is a short hadith treatise preserving a set of short-chained (awali) narrations related from the Prophet through the Companion Anas ibn Malik. It covers diverse legal rulings, ritual practices, moral and interpersonal virtues, and prophetic exhortations.