Rude, low people and mean slaves. They have been collected from all sides and picked up from every pack. They need to be taught the tenets (of Islam), disciplined, instructed, trained, supervised and led by the hand. They are neither muhajirun (immigrants from Mecca), nor ansar (helpers of Medina) nor those who made their dwellings in the abode (in Medina) and in belief.
(1) Ibn Qutaybah, al-'Imamah, I, 154;
(2) al-Thaqafi, al-Gharat, I, 312;
(3) al-Kulayni, al-Rasa'il;
(4) al-Tabari, al-Mustarshid, 95;
(5) Ibn Tawus, Kashf, 173;
(6) Safwah, Jamharah.