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Abstract

"An Introduction to the Abadi Sect"

by Ismail Bin Saleh Bin Mamdan Aghbari

Our nation will always be one nation despite the fact that there are different sects and opinions.

As the researcher seeks to make some rapprochement among Islamic sects، and introduce the jurisprudence treasure of the Abadi sect، he give his research the title of "An introduction to the Abadi sect". He presents his research in four chapters:

Chapter one: the establishment of the Abadi sect، and terminology of the sect. It includes five sections.

Section one: The researcher discusses the roots of the sect which go back to those people who opposed the idea of arbitration between Ali bin Abi Talib and Maan'ya bin Abi Sufian. They came to be Known as Al- Nahrqwan people. But there are a lot of things that falsely attributed to them.

Section tow: the establishment of the sect. The researcher points out that the real founder of the sect is Jabir Bin Zaid (Died 93 AH).

Section Three: Places where the sect is widespread the sect was widespread in various areas such ad Basrah، Kharasan، Mijaz، Yemen، and North Africa.

At the present، the Abadis constitute the majority of people in Oman. Section four: reasons of the retreat of the sect. The reseindicates that these reasons are related to political and secretion fanaticism. However، Some of these reasons are connected to the Abadiz themselves: they were over to lerant.

Section five: terminology of the Abadis and titles of their scholars.

Chapter two: Suspicions about the Abadis sect and answer to these suspicions. The researcher falsifies some claims such as that the Abadis reject the stoning as a punishment، that they allow a man to have a woman and her aunt as wives، and that they permit a man to assign his inheritance as he wants. But the researcher points out that the abdis do approve stonning as a divine punishment، and they do not allow a man to have a woman and her aunt as two wives. Also، they do not allow a man to assign his inheritance as he want.

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