Safwan bin Ya'la bin Umaiya

Safwan ibn Ya'la ibn Umayyah al-Tamimi al-Hanafi was a Tabi'i scholar who narrated hadiths from his father Ya'la ibn Umayyah al-Tamimi, a companion of the Prophet ﷺ. Ya'la ibn Umayyah is well known for narrating the detailed account of a man who approached the Prophet ﷺ during the Farewell Pilgrimage wearing a perfumed garment in ihram, and the Prophet's ruling on that matter. Through Safwan, these and other narrations of Ya'la ibn Umayyah were preserved and transmitted to the broader hadith tradition. Safwan served as the primary conduit for his father's narrations, and the chain 'Safwan ibn Ya'la from his father' is recognized by hadith scholars as a reliable transmission. He is considered a trustworthy Tabi'i narrator. His reports, primarily from his father, appear in the major Sunan and Sahih collections and are cited in classical fiqh discussions of Hajj and ihram. The father-son transmission he represents is one of many such chains that preserved the Sunnah through family networks in the early Muslim community.