Hilal al-Ra'y (Hilal ibn Yahya)

هلال الرأي (هلال بن يحيى)

Hilal ibn Yahya ibn Muslim al-Ra'y al-Basri, called al-Ra'y for the breadth of his learning and his abundant fiqh. He learned fiqh from Abu Yusuf and Zufar and related hadith from Abu Awana and Ibn Mahdi; Bakkar ibn Qutayba, Abd Allah ibn Qahtaba and al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Bastam took from him. His book on contracts made him a leader in the subject, and his work Ahkam al-Waqf was passed among scholars. The header gives 245 AH with a question mark. ¹

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Roles: Jurist
Counted among: Sunni (Hanafi)
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Hilal ibn Yahya ibn Muslim al-Ra'y al-Basri, called al-Ra'y for the breadth of his learning and his abundant fiqh; the source calls him a teacher of Malik. ¹ He learned fiqh from Abu Yusuf and Zufar and related hadith from Abu Awana and Ibn Mahdi. ¹ His works include a book on contracts and Ahkam al-Waqf, which scholars passed among themselves.

Sources

al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.15828

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islam.museum contributors. “Hilal al-Ra'y (Hilal ibn Yahya)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hilal-al-ray/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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