Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• Ḥaḍramawt (Hadhramaut)
Several scholars have alluded to it. Hence al-Masʿūdī 2 says the following:
أكثرها إباضية إلى هذا الوقت،‏ وهو سنة اثنتين وثالثين وثالثمائة،‏ ول فرق بينهم وبين من بعمان من
الخوارج في هذا المذهب
Most of them are Ibāḍiyyah up to the present day, which is the year three
hundred and thirty two. There is no difference between them and the
Khawārij of ʿUmmān in this dogma. 3
Similarly, Ibn Khaldūn has stated that most of them hate ʿAlī I due to
the incident of arbitration. 4
• Al-ʿAramah (Al Armah) 5
Al-Mubarrid has pointed toward their existence there. 6
1 Ḥaḍramawt: a very vast stretch of land on the eastern side of ʿAdan, situated near the ocean.
Around it are many sand dunes which are known as Aḥqāf. In Ḥaḍramawt there are two famous cities:
Tarīm and Shiyām. As for in our time, it is situated in Yemen. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 2/270.
2 ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī. A historian with interesting facts and
strange stories. It is said that he was from the progeny of Ibn Masʿūd. He was born in Iraq and travelled
expansively to various places. He thereafter settled in Egypt and passed away there in 345 A.H. Some
of his books are: Akhbār al-Zamān, al-Awsaṭ, Murūj al-Dhahab. See: Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ 4/48; Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 15/569; al-Wāfī bi al-Wafayāt 21/5; Lisān al-Mīzān 4/224.
3 Murūj al-Dhahab 4/82.
4 Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 4/287.
5 A mountain series which expands across the eastern side of al-ʿᾹriḍ and shares boundaries with al-
Dahnāʾ. Its eastern side is next to al-Sahbāʾ and its northern side starts at the Mujazzal Mountain. Up
to the present day it holds the same name. See: Muʿjam al-Buldān 4/110; al-Aṣfahānī: Bilād al-ʿArab p. 305
(footnote no. 3); Ṣaḥīḥ al-Akhbār ʿAmmā fī Bilād al-ʿArab min al-Ᾱthār 2/87; al-Mubaddil: al-Muntazahāt al-
Barriyyah p. 13. As for al-Mubarrid, he is Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Akbar ibn ʿUmayr al-Azdī,
Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Thumālī. One of the leading scholars of Baṣrah in language and literature. He became
famous by the name al-Mubarrid and was very reliable in what he quoted. He was the rival of Thaʿlab
who was the leading scholar of Kūfah during the same era. He passed away in 281 A.H. after the age of
seventy. Some of his books are: al-Kāmil, al-Muqtaḍab fī al-Naḥw, Maʿānī al-Qurʾān. See: Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ
5/479; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 4/313; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 13/576; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 11/79.1
6 Muʿjam al-Buldān 4/110.
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