5) Futya al-Rabi' b. Habib. 54

6) K. Nikah al-shighar of 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-'Aziz

7) The books and the correspondence of the first two Imams of the Ibadhi school, Jabir b. Zaid, and Abu 'Ubaidah Muslim. 55

Almost all subsequent Ibadhi works were based mainly on the material preserved in the above mentioned works. Mss. Of these works are still extant, but no academic study of them has ever been conducted. Critical editions with a full academic examination of these works will be of great value. It may be of some use here to give brief notes on some of them, in the hope that subsequently the task of a detailed study may be undertaken.

I) AL-MUDAWWANAH BY ABU GHANIM BISHR B. GHANIM AL KHURASANI:

There is certain evidence that the Ibadhi views reached the area of Khurasan during the early days of the Ibadhi movement.56 During the second century H. emerged a number of Ibadhi scholars with the title Khurasani, either by birth or residence, who participated in preserving and recording the Ibadhi doctrine from Abu 'Ubaidah Muslim.57 Among the scholars, though late in date, was Abu Ghanim, the author of the Mudawwanah. He lived during the period between the beginning of the second half of the second century H. and the early decades of the third century H. (about 765-820 A.D.). He studied in Basrah under the students of Abu 'Ubaidah, and composed the Mudawwanah towards the end of the second century H. He traveled to Tahert with a copy of the Mudawwanah and presented it to the second Rustamid Imam, 'Abd al-Wahhab b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. Rustam (d. 190/805).58 This journey to North Africa took place towards the end of the second century H., during the rule of 'Abd al-Wahhab.

The contents of the Mudawwanah. 59

The Mudawwanah contains the opinions and the narrations of the following Ibadhi scholars: al-Rabi' b. Habib; Abu al-Muhajir Hashim b. al-Muhajir; Abu al-Mu'arrij 'Amr b. Muhammad; Abu Sa'id 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-'Aziz; Abu Ghassan Mukhallad b. al-'Amarrad; Abu Aiyub Wa'il b. Aiyub; Hatim b. Mansur; Ibn 'Abbad al-Misri; and Abu Sufyan Mahbub b. al-Rahil. All these men had studied under Abu 'Ubaidah in Basrah. They were of different origins and later settled in different places. Abu al-Mu'arrij was from Qudam in Yemen.60 Abu al-Muhajir Hashim b. al-Muhajir was from Hadramawt and settled in Kufah.61 Ibn 'Abbad al-Misri came originally from Egypt and, after completing his studies in Basrah, he went back to Egypt, and included them in the Mudawwanah. Abu Aiyub Wa'il b. Aiyub was from Hadramawt and