هلال الرأي (هلال بن يحيى)

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