Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

كان شديدا على الخوارج مكثرا للقتل فيهم
He was staunch against the Khawārij and would fight them a lot. 1
Likewise:
قتل منهم بشرا كثيرا
He killed a lot of people from among them. 2
Many of the successors followed in the footsteps of the Ṣaḥābah. They would
encourage the people very passionately to fight them. They would likewise dispel
any doubts people would have which would cause them to hesitate in fighting
them. 3
4. Condemning the Detractors of ʿAlī I and Rebutting their Claims:
As was the norm, no evil would emerge whilst any of the Ṣaḥābah M were
alive but that they would be the first people to rise to tackle it and condemn it
without any hesitation and fear.
Because the Khawārij emerged before the other types of the Nawāṣib and because
the Ṣaḥābah M lived during that time, they advanced in fighting them; and
just as they fought them with spears they also confronted them verbally, at times
by debating with them and at times by openly and directly condemning them.
Hence we see that when a Khārijī came to Ibn ʿUmar I and asked him about
ʿAlī I he said:
إذا أردت أن تسأل عن علي فانظر إلى منزله من منزل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم،‏ هذا منزله وهذا
منزل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
1 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 6/227.
2 Tārīkh Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ p. 222.
3 Muṣannaf ʿAbd al-Razzāq 10/120; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr: al-Tamhīd 23/325.
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