Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

The narrations about fighting the Khawārij are categorically established
from Rasūl Allah H, for it established through transmissions which
give the benefit of certainty according to the scholars of the science. 1
They likewise persistently warned the people about them and induced them
to put an end to them. 2 They would also interpret some verses as referring to
them. Hence Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ I would deem them Fāsiqīn (transgressors)
drawing that from the verse:
وَ‏ مَ‏ ا يُضِ‏ لُّ‏ بِهِ‏ إِلاَّ‏ الْفَ‏ اسِ‏ قِيْنَ‏ الاَّذِ‏ يْنَ‏ يَنْقُ‏ ضُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ عَ‏ هْ‏ دَ‏ اللّٰهِ‏ مِنْ‏ ۢ بَعْ‏ دِ‏ مِيْثَاقِهِ‏ وَ‏ يَقْ‏ طَ‏ عُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ مَ‏ ا أَمَ‏ رَ‏ اللّٰهُ‏ بِهِ‏ أَنْ‏
يُّوْ‏ صَ‏ لَ‏ وَ‏ يُفْ‏ سِ‏ دُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏ فِي الْ‏ ‏َرْ‏ ضِ‏ ۚ
أُولٰئِكَ‏ هُ‏ مُ‏ الْخَ‏ اسِ‏ رُ‏ وْ‏ نَ‏
And he misleads not except the defiantly disobedient. Who break the covenant of
Allah after contracting it and sever that which Allah has ordered to be joined and
cause corruption on earth. It is those who are the losers. 3,4
He would also say regarding them:
هم قوم زاغوا فأزاغ الله قلوبهم
They are a people who deviated, and thus Allah mislead their hearts.
Ibn Taymiyyah has made mention of the efforts of the Ṣaḥābah M in this
regard:
لما شاغ في المة أمر الخوارج تكلمت الصحابة فيهم،‏ ورووا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الحاديث
فيهم،‏ وبينوا ما في القرآن من الرد عليهم
When the fitnah of the Khawārij spread in the Ummah, the Ṣaḥābah M
spoke out regarding them. They narrated the aḥādīth of Nabī H
1 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 6/218.
2 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah 7/553; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr: al-Tamhīd 23/335; al-Nubuwwāt p. 141.
3 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah 7/560.
4 Sūrah al-Baqarah: 26, 27.
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