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And Ahmad ibn Yahyā al-Hulwānī informed us of it. He said: Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus narrated to us, from Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, from al-Zuhrī, who said, “I have never seen any people more like the Christians than the Sabāʾiyya.” Ahmad ibn Yūnus said, “They are the Rāfida.”
وَأَنْبَأَنَاهُ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحُلْوَانِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ , عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ , عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: مَا رَأَيْتُ قَوْمًا أَشْبَهَ بِالنَّصَارَى مِنَ السَّبَائِيَّةِ قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ: هُمُ الرَّافِضَةُ