Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

specifically applies to the Khawārij only. 1 This is what is understood from the
definition of Ibn Sīdah and others as well.
But the reality is that although the Khawārij are one of the first people regarding
who the definition of Naṣb is true, however, restricting Naṣb to them is not very
precise, especially when considering the various usages of the scholars in this
regard; for they have labelled people and groups who have no link with the
Khawārij whatsoever as Nawāṣib, rather at times these groups turnout to be the
most staunch opponents of the Khawārij.
The second type: Many of the Marwāniyyah 2 and those who agree with them.
They all agreed that ʿAlī I played a role in the murder of ʿUthmān I, but
thereafter they disputed. Some said that he openly ordered the assassination of
ʿUthmān I, some said that he clandestinely ordered his murder, whilst others
say that he did not do any of that but displayed happiness when he received
the news. 3 They therefore considered hating ʿAlī I to be an act of worship,
as suggested by Ibn Ḥajr. But at a later stage the movement was dominated by
political motives.
Very soon after the tribulation of the murder of ʿUthmān I those who held
this stance amongst the early generations became known as the ‘ʿUthmāniyyah’,
4
i.e. his supporters, the establishers of his merits, and his defenders. 5
1 Al-ʿUkbarī: Dīwān al-Mutanabbī bi Sharḥ Abī al-Baqāʾ al-ʿUkbarī 1/156; al-Zabīdī: Tāj al-ʿArūs 4/277.
2 Al-Marwāniyyah: The second branch of the Umayyad family which came into power, the first
amongst who to rule was Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam and the last amongst who was Marwān ibn Muḥammad.
This title came about after Marwān rose to power in Damascus. See: al-Dawlah al-Umawiyyah wa al-
Muʿāraḍah p. 126; Tārīkh Khilāfah Banī Umayyah p. 60.
3 Majmūʿ Fatāwā Shaykh al-Islām 35/73; Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 4/405.
4 The opposite of this term is ʿAlawiyyah which refers to those who are drawn to ʿAlī I and give
him preference over ʿUthmān I. This is a famous stance of a group of scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah
in Kūfah. See: Fatḥ al-Bārī 6/191. To see how the terms are used as opposites of each other also see:
Maʿrifah al-Thiqāt 1/460, 480; al-Kāmil fī Ḍuʿafāʾ al-Rijāl 6/236; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 9/337; Fatḥ al-Bārī 12/306.
Likewise the ʿUthmānīs might have dubbed one of the partisans of ʿAlī I ‘Turābī’ attributing him
to the famous title of ʿAlī I Abū Turāb. See: al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 3/330.
5 This is from the introduction of the book al-ʿUthmāniyyah of ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn with slight
alteration. According to the Twelvers the term ʿUthmāniyyah refers to a group of Nawāṣib who go
beyond limits in loving ʿUthmān I. See: Mashāriq al-Shumūs 2/391.
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