Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

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• Malāqah
Al-Ayyūbī has made mention of the Khārijī presence there. 2
• Al-Andalus (Andalusia)
The dogma of the Khawārij first reached it by way of the Ibāḍī Berbers
who migrated to it from Morocco after it had proliferated there. 3 Hence
they had a few forts and they had also fought a few battles against the
Umayyads in Andalus. 4 Several scholars have alluded to their presence in
al-Andalus: hence Ibn Ḥazm 5 has alluded to their existence there during
his era and has also gone on to state some of their ideas and beliefs. He says:
وشاهدنا اإلباضية عندنا بالندلس
We saw the Ibāḍiyyah by us in Andalus. 6
Ibn Khaldūn has also asserted the same. 7
1 I have not found any description of it in the books I have at my disposal.
2 Miḍmār al-Khalāʾiq wa Sirr al-Khalāʾiq 1/54.
3 Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 6/155.
4 Al-ʿIbar fī Akhbār Man Ghabar 2/120.
5 ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm al-Umawī, Abū Muḥammad al-Andalusī. The spear header of the
literalist school and a great jurist and ḥadīth expert. He was born in Qurṭubah in 384 A.H. He earned
acclaim for having vast knowledge and a strong grasp of matters. He has been criticised for his sharp
criticism of his opponents. He went into seclusion from the people in a place called Lablah, which is
near Ishbīliyyah. He passed away in 456 A.H. It is said that his works exceed four hundred, some of
which are: al-Muḥallā, al-Fiṣal, al-Iḥkām. See: Nafḥ al-Ṭīb 2/77; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 3/325; Siyar Aʿlām al-
Nubalāʾ 18/184; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 12/91.
6 Al-Fiṣal fī al-Milal wa al-Niḥal 4/144.
7 Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 6/155. Note: the Ibāḍiyyah still currently exist in Oman to a very large extent.
Likewise they still have a presence in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, the Western Desert, and Zanzibar which
has been recently added to Tanzania. See: al-Mawsūʿah al-Muyassarah fī al-Adyān wa al-Madhāhib wa al-
Aḥzāb al-Muʿāṣirah 1/62.
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