The sixteenth century author Gedaliah ibn Yaḥyah credited the Sefer ha-Chinuch to Rabbi Aharon HaLevi of Barcelona (1235-c. 1290), a Talmudic scholar and halakhist; but others disagree, as the views of the Chinuch contradict opinions held by HaLevi in other works.
The sixteenth-century author Gedaliah ibn Yaḥyah claimed that Rabbi Aharon HaLevi of Barcelona (1235-c. 1290), a Talmudic scholar and halakhist, authored the Sefer ha-Chinuch; however, others disagree with this claim because the teachings in the Chinuch contradict those expressed by HaLevi in other writings.