Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

battle of Nahrawān, just as it is alleged that Naṣb entered these lands with
two men, one of who was Ibn Ibāḍ. 1
Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī 2 has made mention of their presence there, he states:
أكثر أهلها في أيامنا خوارج إباضية،‏ ليس بها من غير هذا المذهب إل طارئ غريب وهم ل يخفون ذلك
Most of its people in our days are Khawārij belonging to the Ibāḍī sect.
Besides this sect there is not anyone belonging to any other sect with the
exception of a temporary traveller. And they do not conceal that. 3
This is also recorded by Ibn al-Jawzī 4 and Ibn al-Athīr. 5
Likewise:
1 Al-Khawārij Tārīkhuhum wa Ᾱrāʾuhum al-Iʿtiqādiyyah p. 163; al-Ḥarakah al-Ibāḍiyyah fī al-Mashriq al-
ʿArabī p. 152. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibāḍ al-Maqāʿisī al-Murrī al-Tamīmī. The eponym of the Ibāḍiyyah and
their leader. Historians have differed as to his life and the year of his demise. He had, as is alleged,
repented from his innovation and thus his followers disassociated from him, but their attribution to
him still remained. He died in the era of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān. See: Lisān al-Mīzān 3/248; ʿUmdah
al-Qārī 24/85; al-Zarkalī: al-Aʿlām 4/61.
2 Yāqūt ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Rūmī. A grammarian and historian. He was born in the lands of Rome in 575
A.H. He would earn a living by writing manuscripts. He was very ambitious in acquiring information.
He eventually settled in Ḥalab. He passed away in 621 A.H. Some of his books are: Muʿjam al-Buldān,
Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ, al-Mushtarak Waḍʿan al-Mukhtalif Ṣiqʿan. See: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 6/127; Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 22/312; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 5/121.
3 Muʿjam al-Buldān 4/150.
4 Al-Muntaẓam 7/324. Ibn al-Jawzī is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qurashī, Abū al-Faraj
al-Baghdādī. A Ḥanbalī jurist who was an expert in many sciences. His lineage ends at Abū Bakr al-
Ṣiddīq I. He was born in 510 A.H. He became very popular for his oratory skills and his immense
influence on the people, to the extent that he was invited to the court of the Khalīfah al-Mustaḍīʾ a
few times. He has authored many books. He passed away in 597 A.H. Some of his works are: Zād al-
Masīr, al-Muntaẓam, and al-ʿIlal al-Mutanāhiyah. See: Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 21/365; al-Wāfī bi al-Wafayāt
18/109; al-Maqṣid al-Arshad 2/93; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 4/329.
5 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 5/93, 185.
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