THIS HISTORY IS FOR THOSE SUNNI & SHIA BROTHERS THAT DONT KNOW THE ORIGINS OF THESE KHAWRIJI QURRITE WAHABIS.
THE MODERN DAY WAHABHIS WILL CALL ANY BEARDED MURDERER A JIHADI LOL,
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY KILL MUSLIMS.
AND IGNORE JIHAD WHEN ITS DONE BY SUNNI OR SHIA SOLDIERS AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS!
The first of two sects of khawarij (Qurra)
The Qurra had taken part in the Battle of Yamama.
But the Qurra never listened to orders and would start battles even when they were ordered not to and were heavily out numbered.
At Yamamah,
Khalid ibn al-Walid wrote to them and Ikrimah to just observe the forces of Musaylimah at Yamamah,
and told them not to start fighting until he had arrived.
Shurahbil bin Hasanah was also dispatched to assist them.
But even though they were heavily out numbered,
they disobeyed their orders and started a battle and as a result suffered heavy casualties.
They later disobeyed orders and started the Battle of the Camel and the Battle of Saffin and did the same against Ali in the Battle of Nahrawan even through they were heavily out numbered.
Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 9, Book 92, Number 386 : Narrated by Hammam
Hudhaifa said,
"O the Group of Al-qurra! Follow the straight path,
for then you have taken a great lead (and will be the leaders),
but if you divert right or left, then you will go astray far away."
The Qurra had previously been desert nomads from Nejd,
and some were also bandits and had joined to
Muslims so that they could gain lands and status and become the new aristocrats in Persian Iraq.
But later when Uthman imposed restrictions on them and prevented them from becoming landlords in Iran they rebelled.
Some of the people with their tribal names as Qurra had been expelled from Kufa, in Persian Iraq,
for fomenting trouble and were sent to Muawiyah in roman Syria.
Muawiyah then said to them:
"You are people from the Arabs.
You have importance and are heard.
You have obtained nobility by Islam.
You have conquered the nations and you have won their positions and their inheritance.
I have heard that you resent the Quraysh.
If it had not been for the Quraysh,
you would have been considered abased as you were before,
However, they are still your Imams today and your shelter, so do not impede your shelter.
Your Imamns are patient with you in the face of your injustice and endure the trouble that you cause.
By Allah, either you will cease or Allah will try you with someone who will be hard on you.
Then you will share with them in what you brough about on the populace while you were alive and after your death. "
There were references to these people in earlier texts too. Abū Dharr narrated that Muhammad said:
Aḥmad, Muslim, and Ibn Mājah
“There will definitely be a people after me from my nation who recite the Quran yet it will not even reach beyond their throats.
They will pass through the religion as an arrow passes through a target,
then they will not return back to it.
They are the worst of people, the worst of all creatures.”
al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd,
and al-Nasā`ī all recorded a Ḥadīth from Abū Sa’īd al- Khudrī ( رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ ) that he said:
‘Alī ( رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ ) sent some gold to the prophet ( صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم ) so divided and distributed it among four groups:
al-Aqra’ Ibn Ḥābis al-Ḥanẓalī, al-Mujāshi’ī, ‘Uyaynah Ibn Badr al-Fazārī, and Zayd al-Ṭā`ī; a man from the Nabhān tribe and ‘Alqamah Ibn ‘Ulāthah al-‘Āmirī; then a man from the Kilāb tribe.
(The Muslims of) Quraysh and the residents of Medina became upset and said,
“He gives to the noble one from Najd
and leaves us?”
The prophet ( صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم ) said: إِنَّمَا أَتَأَلَّفُهُمْ “I am only trying to unite their hearts.”
Then a man with sunken eyes, thick cheeks,
a high forehead,
a thick over grown beard,
a shaven head & thobe raised high above his ankles,
came up and said,
“Fear Allah,
Muhammad!”
He replied:
مَنْ يُطِعْ اللَّهَ إِذَا عَصَيْتُ؟ أَيَأْمَنُنِي اللَّهُ عَلَى أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ فَلا تَأْمَنُونِي؟ “Who would obey Allah if I were disobedient (to Him)? Allah trusts me with regards to the people of the earth but you don’t trust me?”
After the man left, he said: إِنَّ مِنْ ضِئْضِئِ هَذَا أَوْ فِي عَقِبِ هَذَا قَوْمًا يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ لا يُجَاوِزُ حَنَاجِرَهُمْ يَمْرُقُونَ مِنْ الدِّينِ مُرُوقَ السَّهْمِ مِنْ الرَّمِيَّةِ يَقْتُلُونَ أَهْلَ الإِسْلامِ وَيَدَعُونَ أَهْلَ الأَوْثَانِ لَئِنْ أَنَا أَدْرَكْتُهُمْ لأَقْتُلَنَّهُمْ قَتْلَ عَادٍ
“From the progeny of this chief of Nejd,” or he said, “From the offspring of this man,
there will come a people who will recite the Quran but it will not go beyond their throats.
They will go through the religion like an arrow going through a target.
They will murder the people of Islam while ignoring the people of idol-worship.
If I were to reach them (their time),
I would destroy them like the people of ‘Ād were destroyed.”
modern scholars like R. E. Brunnow trace
the origins of the
Qurra and the Kharitites back to Bedouin stock and desert tribes of Nejd in Saudi Arabia,
who had become soldiers not out of commitment to Islam but to share the spoils.
Brunnow held that the Kharijites were Bedouin Arabs (Beduinenaraber) or full blooded Arabs.
The killing of The third caliph at the hands of the khawarij.
Finding the gate of Uthman's house strongly guarded by his supporters,
the Qurra climbed the back wall and sneaked inside, leaving the guards on the gate unaware of what was going on inside.
Hassan and Hussein were also guarding Uthman at the time.
The rebels entered his room and struck blows at his head.
According to Encyclopedia of Islam,
Muawiyah sent a relief force led by Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri to protect Uthman,
but events moved so fast that Uthman got killed before they arrived,
so they turned back from the wadi I kura.
According to al-Baladhuri one of the earliest books of these events,
Ali was furious and slapped Hassan and Hussein saying;
"How did he get killed when you were at the door?"
After years of planning and scheming and making every one else fight,
Marwan came to power in Syria and the Qurra (the Kharijites) established a state in Southern Iraq.
The very thing caliph Hassan signed a treaty with caliph Muawiyah to avoid.
Now there were three camps, the Scholars in Madina,
the Kharijites in Iraq and Umayyads in Syria.
In Sahih Al Bukhari the people still referred to the
Kharijites by their old name
Qurra and most Muslims resented these
civil wars and
felt that the Arabs
had left the teachings of
Muhammad and
gone back to their old ways of fighting over wealth.
Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 228:[207] Narrated by Abu Al-Minhal
After the unsatisfactory conclusion to the Battle of Siffin,
Ali ibn Abi Talib returned with his army back to Kufa on the 13th of Safar 37 A.H. (~30 July 657 C.E.).
During the march,
a group of 12,000 men kept themselves at a distance from the main part of the army.
People who now joined the Kharijite were instrumental in getting the Muslims to fight in the Battle of the Camel.
They had started the battle while Ali was still negotiating.
Many of them had also been involved in the murder of Uthman.
They had started many battles fearing that if there was peace,
they would be arrested for the killing of Uthman.
When the army neared Kufa, the Kharijites camped at a village named Harura.
They began saying that all Muslims were equal and no one could rule over another, denouncing both Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah while proclaiming that their belief was in;
"La Hukma Illa Lillah", meaning,
"No Rulership except by Allah alone."
(A now typical Salafi jihadi slogan!)
Ali sent Sa'sa'a ibn Sauhan and Ziyad ibn Nazr al-Harisi, in the company of `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas,
to treat with them;
afterwards he himself went to the Kharijite encampment and tried to explain to them that they were misunderstanding the words "La Hukma Illa Lillah",
and that in accepting the Arbitration (peace talks) at Siffin,
he had not gone against the teachings of the Quran.
He pointed out that they themselves laid down their arms and forced him to call back Malik al-Ashtar, who was at the point of securing victory.
He reminded them that they had pressed for the Arbitration and had forced him to appoint Abu Musa al-Ash'ari as his (and thus their) representative, having rejected Ali's nominees, ibn Abbas and Malik al-Ashtar.
He told them that he found their present behavior very strange, considering their involvement in the army revolt at Siffin.
To this they admitted that they had sinned but now they had repented for it and he should do the same.
Ali replied that he was a true believer and did not have to repent because he had not committed any sin;
more discussion proved fruitless, and he dispersed the Kharijite representatives.
The Kharijites refused to accept the words of Ali and awaited the decision of Amr ibn al-Aas and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari.
When they learnt of the decision they decided to revolt, setting up their headquarters at Nahrawan, twelve miles from Baghdad.
A group of sympathizers from Basra came to join the rebels.
On the other side, after hearing the verdict of Arbitration Ali wrote to the Kharijites that the verdict passed by the two arbitrators in pursuance of their heart's wishes instead of the Quran and Sunnah was not acceptable to him,
that he had therefore decided to fight Muawiyah,
and they should now support him in crushing the Syrian.
But the Kharijites replied, "When you had agreed to Arbitration in our view you had turned heretic.
Now if you admit your heresy and offer repentance we will think over this matter and decide what we should do."
Ali understood from their reply that their disobedience and misguidance had become very serious,
and to entertain any kind of hope from them now was futile.
Consequently ignoring them, he encamped in the valley of al-Nukhaylah with a view to marching towards Syria to fight against Muawiyah.
THIS HISTORY IS FOR THOSE SUNNI & SHIA BROTHERS THAT DONT KNOW THE ORIGINS OF THESE KHAWRIJI QURRITE WAHABIS.
THE MODERN DAY WAHABHIS WILL CALL ANY BEARDED MURDERER A JIHADI LOL,
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY KILL MUSLIMS.
AND IGNORE JIHAD WHEN ITS DONE BY SUNNI OR SHIA SOLDIERS AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS!
NOTE: read the Qur'an with its explanation,
Most of these hypocrites were from Nejd & were then called Khawriji,
So they are described in the Quran not by name, but by deed.
Ali had already set out for Syria when he received the news that the Kharijites had butchered the governor of Nahrawan,
Abdullah ibn Khabbab ibn al-Aratt,
and his maid,
reportedly tearing a child from her womb,
and had killed three women of Banu Tayyi and Umm Sinan as-Saydawiyyah.
Ali ibn Abi Talib was enraged at this atrocity & sent al-Harith ibn Murrah al-Abdi to investigate but he too was killed by the Kharijites.
With their rebellion at this stage it was obvious that Ali would have to deal with them;
there was a danger that the Kharijites
might attack Kufa while he and his men were marching to Syria, and so he decided to prevent this possibility.
Ali changed his course eastward,
crossed the river Tigris, and approached Nahrawan.
Caliph Ali's sermon before the battle.
"I am warning you that you will be killed on the bend of this canal and on the level of this low area while you will have no clear excuse before Allah nor any open authority with you. You have come out of your houses and then divine decree entangled you. I had advised you against this arbitration but you rejected my advice like adversaries and opponents till I turned my ideas in the direction of your wishes. You are a group whose heads are devoid of wit and intelligence. May you have no father! (Allah's woe be to you!) I have not put you in any calamity nor wished you harm."
Caliph Ali's sermon before the battle.
"I am warning you that you will be killed on the bend of this canal and on the level of this low area while you will have no clear excuse before Allah nor any open authority with you. You have come out of your houses and then divine decree entangled you. I had advised you against this arbitration but you rejected my advice like adversaries and opponents till I turned my ideas in the direction of your wishes. You are a group whose heads are devoid of wit and intelligence. May you have no father! (Allah's woe be to you!) I have not put you in any calamity nor wished you harm."
