94. Wisyani, Siyar., 77; Lewicki, Etudes Ibadite., I, 127-128

95. Ibn 'Idhari, Bayan., I, 72; Abu Zakariya, Siyar., 10b

96. Darjini, Tabaqat., 33; Baghturi, Siyar 3-4

97. Wisyani, Siyar., 76; Lewicki, op. cit., 17

98. Cf. Infra, (141, 191 Note 10)

99. Ajwibat 'Ulama' Fazzan., Ms. 3; Shammakhi, Siyar., 191

100. Cf. Infra, (169, 196) Note 93

101. Ibn Sallam Bad'u al-Islam wa Shara'I al-din., 50

102. Cf. My "Description of New Ibadhi Mss., J.S.S., 15, 1, 67-68. It is possible that Ismail b. Sulaiman al-Maghribi mentioned in the treatise of Abu 'Ubaidah is the same Ismail b. Ziyad al-Nufusi, the Imam of 'defense' elected after the death of Al-Harith.

103. Al-Jitali, Sharh al-Nuniyah.,

104. Cf. Shammakhi, Siyar., 146, 187; Ibn Sallam, op. cit., 60-63; Darjini, Tabaqat., 51-52, 71-72.

105. Salimi, Lum'ah., 25

106. Loc. cit.

107. For the biographies of Abu Khalil and Muhammad b. Yanis, cf. Lewicki, op. cit., 27-30, 87, 101.

108. For the Ibadiyyah of Jerba Cf. 'Ali Mu'ammar, al-Ibadiyyah fi Tunis., Beirut, 1966.

CHAPTER III

IBADHI JURISPRUDENCE

In 1903 Professor Duncan Macdonald wrote: "Of the jurisprudence of the Ibadhis we know comparatively little. A full examination of Ibadhi fiqh would be of the highest interest, as the separation of its line of descent goes far back behind the formation of any of the Orthodox system." 1

The full examination of the Ibadhi fiqh has not been carried out since then as was hoped by this scholar. Instead, the Ibadhi school of law has been treated by those who studied Islamic law with little attention and was always referred to in generalised statements of little value.

Although Schacht was aware of the fact that the Ibadhi school of law was attributed to the tabi'i Jabir b. Zaid, 2 he concluded his note on the Ibadhi law by stating that the Ibadhis derived their law from the orthodox schools. 3

Contrary to what he avers, the Ibadhi School from the start took a detached