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pertaining to them and they mentioned whatever rebuttals there were in
Qurʾān of them. 1
These efforts were not going to prove useless of course, much of them produced
the desired results and many people who were affected repented. 2
As an extension to the efforts of the Ṣaḥābah M, the books of ḥadīth comprised
of chapters specifically discussing the Khawārij and the laws which concern
them. So for example, in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī we find the chapter: Chapter regarding
fighting the Khawārij and the heretics after evidence in established against them; 3
In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim we find the chapters: Chapter regarding the exhortation of killing
the Khawārij 4 and Chapter regarding the Khawārij being the worst of creation; 5
In Sunan Abī Dāwūd we find the following chapters: Chapter regarding killing
the Khawārij 6 and Chapter regarding fighting the Khawārij; 7 and Ibn Ḥibbān has
established the following chapter in his Ṣaḥīḥ: Chapter regarding the Khawārij
being the most disliked of the creation of Allah E. 8
2. Debating the Khawārij and Proving them Wrong In their Stances
The first people to debate them were Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib I
and Ibn ʿAbbās I. 9 Thereafter it became a practice followed by others, hence
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz debated them after he became the Khalīfah. 10 The
1 Majmūʿ Fatāwā Shaikh al-Islām 7/483.
2 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1/179.
3 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6/2539.
4 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2/746.
5 Ibid. 2/750.
6 Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4/241.
7 Ibid. 4/242.
8 Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān 15/387.
9 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah 7/556; Majmūʿ Fatāwā Shaikh al-Islām 19/89; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/282;
Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ p. 174.
10 Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah 1/258.
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