Ya'la ibn Muhammad al-Yafrani

Ya'la ibn Muhammad ibn Salih al-Yafrani, amir of the Zanata in the Maghrib and amir of the Banu Yafran, who used to preach in the name of the Umayyads ¹.

He succeeded his father when he was killed at the hands of Abd Allah ibn Bakkar, who had gone over to the Maghrawa, and his fame grew, and he founded the city of Ifkan ¹.

When Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir called the kings of the Zanata to obey the Umayyads, he hastened to answer him. He took Oran from the hands of Muhammad ibn Awn in the year 343 AH, and entered it by force and laid it waste. He marched with al-Khayr ibn Muhammad to Tahart, and defeated the Shi'a of Maysur the eunuch. He preached for al-Nasir on the pulpits of the Maghrib from Tahart to Tangier, and asked him for permission to wage jihad in al-Andalus, and he granted it ¹.

al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah sent his secretary Jawhar to the Maghrib in the year 347 AH, and Ya'la submitted and cast off the covenant of the Umayyads. Ibn Khaldun reports that Jawhar intended to kill him by treachery, so he caused a disturbance among the rear of the army, and in the midst of it he killed Ya'la with spears. Then Jawhar laid waste Ifkan, and the first state of the Banu Yafran came to an end ¹.

• The year of his death (347 AH) is taken from Ibn Khaldun alone, and the Common Era conversion is derived. The entry needs an additional source.