Among Abu al-ʿĀliyah’s mursal reports whose chain to him is sound is the ruling that anyone who laughs during the prayer must repeat both his wuduʾ (ablution) and the prayer itself. Upon this view stand Abu Ḥanīfah and other leading scholars. (1)

Abu Ḥātim said: “Harmalah narrated to us: I heard al-Shāfiʿī say, ‘The ḥadith of Abu al-ʿĀliyah al-Riyāhī…,’” and Abu Ḥātim explained that he was referring to the narration concerning laughter in prayer.

Hammād ibn Zayd related from Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb who said: Abu al-ʿĀliyah recounted, “A woman bought me as a slave and wished to set me free, but her cousins protested, ‘You will emancipate him and he will go off to Kūfah—then you will lose him!’ She therefore took me to a place in the mosque and declared, ‘You are sāʾibah’—meaning that no bond of walāʾ (allegiance) remains over you. Consequently, Abu al-ʿĀliyah bequeathed all of his wealth. (2)

Abu Khaldah transmitted that Abu al-ʿĀliyah said, “Whatever property I leave behind, one-third is for the cause of Allah, one-third for the family of the Prophet ﷺ, and one-third for the poor.” I asked him, “What about your mawālī (clients)?” He replied, “A sāʾibah may attach himself wherever he wishes.” (3)

Hammām ibn Yaḥyā reported to us from Qatādah, from Abu al-ʿĀliyah, who said: “I completed the recitation of the muḥkam (the definitive text of the Qurʾan) ten years after the death of your Prophet ﷺ. Allah has favored me with two blessings, and I do not know which of them is greater: that He guided me to Islam, and that He did not make me a Ḥarūrī (Kharijite). (4)