The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Six· Devil's Deception of those from Our Ummah
Some of the Babakis still exist, it is stated that their men and
women gathered once a year. They used to turn the lights off and
have relations with one another arbitrarily. They claimed this to be
a form of permissible pursuit.
The fifth title was al-Muf;ammirah (•1):
They were given this title because they used to paint their clothes
red during the days of Babak.
The sixth was al-Qaramitah (4J.a..1__..&J1):
About the origin of which the historians take two different views.
One of these is that a man from the region of Khuzistan came to
the arable land of Kufah, made profession of asceticism, and urged
the claims to the sovereignty of a member of the Prophet's (;i)
house. He lodged with a man named Karmitah so nicknamed because
of the redness of his eyes; the word meaning 'sharpeyed' in
Nabataean. The man was arrested by the governor of the district
and imprisoned; but he left the key of the room under his head,
when he went to sleep, and a slave girl who had pity on the man took
the key, unlocked the room, let the man out, and returned the key to
its place. When the man was sought and could not be found people's
delusion about him increased. He went off to Syria, where he took
the name of his host, Karmitah, which he presently abridged to
Qarmat. His functions were inherited by his family and his descendants.
The second opinion is that the name was given to these people
after a man named I:Iamdan Qarmat, who was one of their first
missionaries; a number of people were converted and were called
Qaramitah or Qaramitiyyah. The man himself was of Kufah, and
inclined to asceticism; meeting on a road one of the Batini missionaries,
who was driving some cattle in the direction of a village he
asked this driver, whom he did not know, whither he was going. The
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