Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS........................................................................... 3

GENERAL NOTES....................................................................................... 4

PREFACE....................................................................................................... 7

CHAPTER I ................................................................................................. 13

THE FOUNDATION OF THE IBADHIAH, AND THE IBADHI VIEWS ON THE KHARIJITES ....................................................................................... 13

"ABDULLAH B. IBADH" .................................................................................. 13

IBADHI VIEWS ON THE KHARIJITES .......................................................... 16

CHAPTER II................................................................................................ 36

JABIR B. ZAID AL-'AZDI ................................................................................ 36

CHAPTER III............................................................................................ 53

ABU 'UBAIDAH MUSLIM B. ABI KARIMAH............................................... 53

The expansion of the Ibadhiyah in North Africa ........................................... 61

The Bears of Learning (Hamalat al-'ilm) ................................................. 63

CHAPTER III............................................................................................. 71

IBADHI JURISPRUDENCE.............................................................................. 71

IBADHI CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF HADITH:............................ 75

AL-JAMI AL-SAHIH:................................................................................ 76

I) Al-Mudawwanah by Abu Ghanim Bishr b. Ghanim al Khurasani: ............... 79

II) Al-Diwan al-ma'rud 'ala 'Ulama' al-Ibadhiyah: .......................................... 81

III) K. Nikah al-Shighar by Abu Sa'id 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-'Aziz: .................... 83

SOME EXAMPLES FOR THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN IBADHI SCHOOL AND OTHER ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS OPINIONS:.................................................................................... 88

I) WIPING OVER SHOES AS PART OF "WUDU" ......................................... 89

II) PRAYERS (AL-SALAT) ............................................................................... 90

III) FASTING (AL-SAWM) ................................................................................ 91

IV) ZAKAT ............................................................................................... 92

V) MARRIAGE ....................................................................................... 93

VI) INHERITANCE .................................................................................. 93

VII) PENAL LAW .................................................................................... 93

CHAPTER IV............................................................................................ 102

IBADHI THEOLOGY....................................................................................... 102

The vision (al-Ru'yah) ....................................................................................... 104

The Qur'an ........................................................................................................ 114

The Imamate ..................................................................................................... 117

THE STATUS OF THE IBADHI THEOLOGY IN RELATION TO THE MAIN ISLAMIC SCHISMS.............................................................................. 118

THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF THE IBADHI SECT............................................. 122

1. Al-Wahbiyah .................................................................................... 123

AL-DIYANAT........................................................................................ 124