The Khashabiyya Shia (named for their exclusive use of pieces of wood as weapons in their revolt against the
Umayyads under the leadership of
Al-Mukhtar) are an extinct subsect of the
Zaidi branch of
Shia Islam
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. They originated as followers of Al-Mukhtar and hence would have been expected to be categorized under the
Kaysanite Shia sect
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. The Khashabiyya Shia were later known in
Khurasan
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as the Surkhabiyya (named for their leader Surkhab al-Tabari).
Beliefs
The Khashabiyya Shia had the following beliefs:
*They believed that
Ali was the
legatee
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Usage
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of
Muhammad
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and not an
Imam
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, but merely the executor (Wasi) of the Imamate that Muhammad had deposited with him until he could pass it on to his son
Hasan
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.
*The Imamate will remain only among the descendants of Hasan ibn Ali and
Husayn ibn Ali
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.
*The Imamate may reside in any one of the descendants of Hasan and Husayn who rises in revolt.
*The “Imam” can be knowledgeable or ignorant, the most excellent or of lesser qualities, righteous or immoral, just or tyrannical.
*The “Imam” must be fully obeyed and never opposed, no matter who he is.
*If two people claim the Imamate at the same time or two of them fight one another, no one should take sides in the struggle between them or provide any assistance to one of them against the other, regardless of whether they are both tyrannical, or both just, or mutual opposites.
See also
*
Islamic schools and branches
Islamic schools and branches have different understandings of Islam. There are many different sects or denominations, Madhhab, schools of Islamic jurisprudence, and schools of Islamic theology, or ''Aqidah, ʿaqīdah'' (creed). Within Sunni I ...
*
List of extinct Shia sects
References
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Bibliography
Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought, By Farhad Daftary, pg.172An Ismaili heresiography: the "Bāb al-shayṭān" from Abū Tammām's Kitāb al ..., By Wilferd Madelung, Paul Ernest Walker, pg.91
Zaydism
Shia Islamic branches
Schisms in Islam