Person

Mar Rav Hilai bar Mari מר רב הילאי בר מרי

head of Sura from 4552

Mar Rav Hilai bar Mari took Sura in 4552 (792)—a generation after Rav Yehudai Gaon, with whom the genre of the ready ruling began.

Neither a responsum of his nor an account of him survives: one name and one year in the list of Sura.

On the timeline

Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon — the list of the academy's heads by name and year
Seder Tannaim ve-Amoraim — a list put together about 884—within this very century, the testimony of a contemporary rather than a retelling of Sherira

Basis: documents and evidence.