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Palestinian amora of the fourth generation (3d and 4th cent.). His principal teacher was Jose b. Saul, in whose name ?iyya transmitted several halakot (M. ?. 22a; R. H. 24a, 30a); but he was also a pupil of Jose b. ?anina (So?ah 7b) and of Assi (Meg. 31b). He transmitted halakot in the name of the council ("?aburah") of the last of the Tannaim (?ul. 30a; Shab. 3a; Pes. 64a, 73b). The following haggadic sentence ?iyya transmitted in the name of Jose b. Saul: "At the death of a just man the angels proclaim that one who is righteous has come, and God answers, 'Let the other ?addi?im come out to meet him'" (Ket. 104a). A sentence of the same nature and ascribed to Eleazar b. Pedat (ib.) is attributed to R. ?iyya ha-Gadol in Pesi?. R. 2 (ed. Friedmann, p. 5, a, b). Bacher accordingly suggests that the name is to be amended into "?iyya b. Gammada." ?iyya's love for Palestine was so great that he rolled in the dust of that country (Ket. 112b).