Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Khawārij
According to the unanimity of the Imāmiyyah they are Nawāṣib because they
excommunicate ʿAlī I greater than which there can be no expression of
hatred, especially when it implies the permissibility of his blood.
Al-Ḥillī has thus stated that the Khawārij are from the Nawāṣib. 1 And according
to al-Anṣārī they are the worse of them. 2 In fact some scholars deem the Khawārij
specifically to be the Nawāṣib. 3
It should, however, be noted that in the writings of many of their scholars the
term Nawāṣib is mentioned side by side with the term Khawārij, which apparently
suggests that they are both distinct from one another. 4 But that is not the case
because the Khawārij are unanimously included in the definition of Naṣb due to
the term Nawāṣib being more general than the term Khawārij. 5
Hence al-Gulpāygānī says:
عطف النواصب على الخوارج من باب عطف العام على الخاص
Linking Nawāṣib to the Khawārij by way of a conjunction is from linking
the general to the specific. 6
The Ahl al-Sunnah
The Shīʿī scholarship has differed regarding them, i.e. are all of the Ahl al-Sunnah
from the Nawāṣib or just some of them?
1 Qawāʿid al-Aḥkām 3/308; see also: Rawḍ al-Jinān p. 157; Nihāyah al-Marām 1/224.
2 Al-Ṭahārah 2/357.
3 Miftāḥ al-Karāmah 2/43.
4 Masālik al-Afhām 1/397.
5 Ibid. 1/397; also see: al-Fuṣūl al-Mukhtārah p. 339.
6 Irshād al-Sāʾil p. 15; also see: Mustanad al-Shīʿah 1/204.
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