91 Ibid., III, 6, 15

92 Ibid., IV, 19

93 Ibid., III, 4

94 Cf. infra, 331 ff

95 al-rabi b. Habib, op. cit., III, 16

96 Ibid., III, 16

97 Ibid., III, 16-17

98 Al-Qutb, Sharh al-Nil., X, 383. Cf. also, Shahrastani, Milal., I, 176. Rubinacci in Religion in the Middle East, II, 309, ascribes this view to Ibadhis!!

99 Ibn al-Nadim, Fihrist., Cairo, 1348, 40

100 Subhi al-Salih, Mabahith fi ulum al-Qur'an., 159

101 Abdullah b. Yazid al-Fazari, K. al-rudud., Ms.33

102 Khamis b. Said, al-Minhaj., al-Baruniyah Ms. I, al-qawl al-sadis ashar.; Barradi, Shifa al-haim., Ms. 285-86, Salimin, Tuhfat al-a'yan., I, 128-129.

103 Loc. cit.

104 Warijlani, Dalil., 7a.

105 Barradi, Shifa al-haim., 285.

106 Ibid., 286; Warijlani, Dalil., 149a.

107 Loc. cit.

108 This treatise is included in K. al-Jawahir of al-Barradi, 183-201.

109 Ibn Saghir, Chronique sur les Imams Rostemides., edited and translated by Motylinski, 27-30.

110 al-Rabi b. Habib, Musnad., I, 18.

111 Ibid., I, 18-19; III, 10; For further details cf. J. Wilkinson, Oman., D. Ph. thesis, Oxford, 1969, 64-88 and Appendix F: The Imam and his Powers.

112 Cf. infra, 397ff.

113 al-Rabi, op. cit., IV, 31.

114 Ibid., IV, 31-32.

115 Ibid., IV, 31-32.

116 Loc. cit.

117 Loc. cit.

118 Cf. Qur'an: XLVIII, 2.

119 al-Rabi b. Habib, op. cit, IV, 32-34

120 Ibid., II 31-33, traditions: 483, 487, 490.