فرقة الضرارية (نشأتها وأعلامها وعقائدها وآراء أهل المقالات فيها)‎: “دراسة استقرائية تحليلية”

الملخص EN

This research is a study in which the researcher traces "al-diraria" cult which is claimed to belong to or was established by Abu-Amr Dirar bin Amr al-Gatafani (d.

about 190 H).

The study aims to: 1-examine the time of this group , shed light on its most prominent figures; and show the relationship between this cult and other contemporary Islamic groups.

2- Another aspect to be examined is whether it is an independent group or not, highlighting its beliefs and concepts and exploring its founder’s articles and check if those ideologies conform with Sunnis or not.

3- and finally identify the effect of various Islamic groups on each other as well as the intermingling of beliefs among those groups.

4- The inductive method was followed in this research in order to achieve accurate results.

The research came out with the following results: 1- al-Dirariah is an independent group that doesn't belong to any of its contemporary groups though it has similar beliefs to some of them.

2- Variation among authors in classification of dirariah has several reasons.

3- Authors mentioned the opinions of Dirar some of which differed from Mu'tazila’s opinions and some differ from other groups.

4- Ahl al-Sunnah were fair with Dirar when they described him as knowledgeable and said that some of his opinions are close to Sunnis’ opinions.

5- There is much need to pay attention to articles written about prominent figures and care must be given to classification of those articles to be documented and used for debates with other religions.