An improved fractional Halanay inequality with distributed delays

In this paper, we establish global fractional Halanay‐type inequalities with distributed delays in differential and integral forms and consequently give a simple sufficient condition for Mittag–Leffler stability of solutions to fractional differential equations with this type of delays. Our essential tool is the submultiplicative property of the Mittag–Leffler functions which imitates the multiplicative property of the exponential functions in the classical theory of differential equations. The estimation with explicit decaying rate and amplitude constant is a faithful extension of the classical Halanay inequality.