In his treatise on the land tax (kharāj), Yaḥyā b. Ādam (d. 203/818) cites a report from the ʿAlid descendant ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥasan according to which ʿUmar, the second caliph, gave Yanbuʿ to ʿAlī after ʿAlī asked him about it. In her chapter on land and leadership in early Islamic societies in Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, Intisar Rabb uses this source to show the range of accounts concerning ʿAlī’s acquisition of land at Yanbuʿ, noting that ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥasan had a personal investment in his version of the narrative and that he appeared in court claiming to have entitlement rights to the land.
This source is part of the Online Companion to the book Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts,ed. Intisar A. Rabb and Abigail Krasner Balbale (ILSP/HUP 2017)—a collection of primary sources and other material used in and related to the book.