Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

And al-Khājūʾī says:
جل المخالفين بل كلهم من أهل النصب
Most of the dissenters, rather all of them are from the people of Naṣb. 1
The Shīʿah besides the Twelvers
Regarding them as well the Twelvers have differed:
The First view
They are not Nawāṣib. 2
The second view
They are Nawāṣib. This is the view of majority of the early scholars, as has passed
already, and is the preferred view of some of the later scholars. This view is
supported by the following narration they report from one of their Imāms:
إن الزيدية والواقفية والنصاب عنده سواء
The Zaydiyyah, the Wāqifiyyah 3 and the Nawāṣib are all the same according
to him. 4
1 Al-Rasāʾil al-Iʿtiqādiyyah 1/431; also see: Sharḥ Iḥqāq al-Ḥaqq 1/63.
2 Mustamsak al-ʿUrwah al-Wuthqā 1/398; also see: al-Rūḥānī: Minhāj al-Ṣāliḥīn 1/26.
3 The word Waqf has two usages:
1. Suspending decision regarding the Imāmah of a particular individual after the demise of the
previous Imām. This is the general meaning.
2. It refers to the Seveners amongst the Shīʿah who consider the last Imām to be Mūsā al-Kāẓim.
They consider him to be alive and thus reject the Imāmah of his son ʿAlī al-Riḍā. That is why
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Riḍā would dub them ‘the donkeys of the Shīʿah’. These people are
known as the Wāqifiyyah, but they have ceased to exist. This is the more specific meaning
of Waqf. See: Biḥār al-Anwār 48/267; al-Shīʿah fī al-Mīzān p. 34; al-Subḥānī: Buḥūth fī al-Milal wa
al-Niḥal 8/379.
4 Biḥār al-Anwār 48/267; al-Shāharūdī: Mustadrakāt ʿIlm Rijāl al-Ḥadīth 3/481.
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