Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (3/101)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

He embraced Islam on the day Mecca was conquered, and his submission was exemplary. He was present at the campaigns of al-Taʾif and Tabuk, and a number of hadiths are related from him.

Those who transmitted from him include his sons — Safwan, ʿUthman and Muhammad; his brother ʿAbd al-Rahman; his nephew Safwan ibn ʿAbd Allah; ʿAbd Allah ibn Babayh; Mujahid; ʿAtaʾ; ʿIkrima; and others.

Roughly twenty hadiths are attributed to him, and some of them are found in the two Sahihs (1).

Ibn Saʿd said: “Yaʿlā ibn Munya used to issue legal opinions in Mecca.”

It is also said that he governed Najran for ʿUmar.

He was counted among the most generous and affluent of the Companions.

Rawh ibn ʿUbadah narrates from Zakariyya ibn Ishaq, from ʿAmr ibn Dinar, who said: “The first person to date written documents was Yaʿlā ibn Umayya while he was in Yemen (2).”

I (the author) say: He governed Yemen for ʿUthman, and he was among those who went out with ʿAʾisha, Talha and al-Zubayr during the incident of the Camel to seek retaliation for the blood of ʿUthman the martyr. He lavished great sums on the army, as kings are wont to do; but when they were defeated, Yaʿlā fled to Mecca and thereafter turned to his own affairs.

He lived on until shortly before the year sixty. I do not know whether he died before Muʿawiya or after him.

= 3/668; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 11/399; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal 7:376; Amali al-Yazidi 96; Asma al-Sahaba al-Ruwat 281; al-Wasa’il ila Musamarat al-Awa’il 34, 129; Dhayl al-Mudhayyal 40. (1) See al-Bukhari 3/311, 4/365, 8/437, and Muslim nos. 871, 1180, 1674. (2) Reported by al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak 3/424; the rest of the wording states: “For the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah in the month of Rabi al-Awwal, yet the people dated the beginning of the year; in fact, dating was established from the Prophet’s arrival in Madinah.”

أَسْلَمَ يَوْمَ الفَتْحِ، وَحَسُنَ إِسلاَمُهُ. وَشَهِدَ: الطَّائِفَ، وَتَبُوْكَ، وَلَهُ: عِدَّةُ أَحَادِيْثَ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: بَنُوْهُ؛ صَفْوَانُ، وَعُثْمَانُ، وَمُحَمَّدٌ، وَأَخُوْهُ؛ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَابْنُ أَخِيْهِ؛ صَفْوَانُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ بَابَيْه، وَمُجَاهِدٌ، وَعَطَاءٌ، وَعِكْرِمَةُ، وَآخَرُوْنَ. لَهُ: نَحْوٌ مِنْ عِشْرِيْنَ حَدِيْثاً، وَحَدِيْثُهُ فِي (الصَّحِيْحَيْنِ (١)) . قَالَ ابْنُ سَعْدٍ: كَانَ يَعْلَى بنُ مُنْيَةَ يُفْتِي بِمَكَّةَ. وَقِيْلَ: وَلِيَ نَجْرَانَ لِعُمَرَ. وَكَانَ مِنْ أَجْوَادِ الصَّحَابَةِ، وَمُتَمَوِّلِيْهِمْ. رَوْحُ بنُ عُبَادَةَ: عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا بنِ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بنِ دِيْنَارٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَرَّخَ الكُتُبَ يَعْلَى بنُ أُمَيَّةَ وَهُوَ بِاليَمَنِ (٢) . قُلْتُ: وَلِيَ اليَمَنَ لِعُثْمَانَ، وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ خَرَجَ مَعَ عَائِشَةَ، وَطَلْحَةَ، وَالزُّبَيْرِ نَوْبَةَ الجَمَلِ فِي الطَّلَبِ بِدَمِ عُثْمَانَ الشَّهِيْدِ، فَأَنْفَقَ أَمْوَالاً جَزِيْلَةً فِي العَسْكَرِ كَمَا يُنْفِقُ المُلُوْكُ، فَلَمَّا هُزِمُوا، هَرَبَ يَعْلَى إِلَى مَكَّةَ، ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى شَأْنِهِ. بَقِيَ إِلَى قَرِيْبِ السِّتِّيْنَ، فَمَا أَدْرِي أَتُوُفِّيَ قَبْلَ مُعَاوِيَةَ أَوْ بَعْدَهُ؟

= ٣ / ٦٦٨، تهذيب التهذيب ١١ / ٣٩٩، خلاصة تذهيب الكمال: ٧ ٣٧٦ أمالي اليزيدي: ٩٦، أسماء الصحابة الرواة: ٢٨١، الوسائل إلى مسامرة الاوائل: ٣٤، ١٢٩، ذيل المذيل: ٤٠. (١) انظر البخاري ٣ / ٣١١ و٤ / ٣٦٥ و٨ / ٤٣٧، ومسلم (٨٧١) و (١١٨٠) و (١٦٧٤) . (٢) أخرجه الحاكم في " المستدرك " ٣ / ٤٢٤، وتمامه: فإن النبي ﷺ قدم المدينة في شهر ربيع الأول، وإن الناس أرخوا لأول السنة، وإنما أرخ الناس لمقدم النبي ﷺ.