Crossword-Solution: IBAD 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Then he turned to me and said, 'Harkye, Hemmad, dost thou know me?' 'By thy life,' answered I, 'I am rich in nought but ignorance!' Said he, 'I am Ibad ben Temim ben Thaalebeh, and indeed God giveth thee thy liberty and spareth thee confusion.' Then he drank to my health and gave me a cup of wine and I drank it off.

See _-Munafiqun_ I Iamblichus, 389 ‘Ibad, the, of -Hira, 38, 39, 138 Ibadites (a Kharijite sect), the, 211 _-‘Ibar_, by -Dhahabi, 339 Ibnu ’l-Abbar, 418, 424 Ibn ‘Abdi Rabbihi, 102, +347+, +420+ Ibn Abi Du’ad, 376 Ibn Abi Usaybi‘a, 266, 355 Ibn Abi Ya‘qub al-Nadim, 362 Ibn Abi Zar‘, 429 Ibnu ’l-Ahmar (Nasrid), 435 Ibn ‘A’isha, 236 Ibnu ’l-‘Alqami, 445 Ibnu ’l-‘Amid, 267 Ibn ‘Ammar (poet), 422, 424 Ibnu ’l-‘Arabi.

Their leader there was Abd Allah ibn Ibad, and from about the year 60 on the schism between his followers and the more absolute of these “come-outers” can be traced.

The more absolute party held that the children of unbelievers were to be killed with their parents; the followers of Abd Allah ibn Ibad, that they were to be allowed to grow up and then given their choice.

Again, were the non-Kharijites Muslims to the extent that the Kharijites might live amongst them and mix with them? This the severely logical party denied, but Abd Allah ibn Ibad affirmed.