ʿAbdallāh b. Wahb - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Lewinstein, Keith
Leiden
Brill
(625 words)
ʿAbdallāh b. Wahb al-Rāsibī was a prominent leader among those pietists who broke with ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib during the First Civil War over ʿAlī's agreement to arbitrate at the battle of Ṣiffīn (37/657). This group, known as the muḥakkima for its slogan "There is no judgement but God's judgement" (lā ḥukm illā li-llāh) , is widely understood to be the earliest manifestation of the Khārijī movement, and Ibn Wahb is identified in later Ibāḍī tradition as the first Khārijī Imām. (More precisely, he appears in