Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said: “The harm they caused became immense, and they went to great extremes in their corrupt doctrine. They rejected stoning for the married adulterer, amputated the thief’s arm at the armpit, and required a menstruating woman to pray during her menses. They declared anyone who failed to command what is right and forbid what is wrong to be an unbeliever if he was capable of doing so; if he was incapable, they held that he had committed a major sin—and, in their view, one who commits a major sin is subject to the ruling of an unbeliever. They spared the property of protected non-Muslim subjects and completely refrained from harming them, yet they fell upon those regarded as Muslims, killing, taking captives, and plundering them” (1).

The Kharijites will continue to emerge until the last of them live to see the Dajjal. In a hadith, Ibn Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “A young generation will arise who recite the Quran, but it will not pass beyond their collarbones. Whenever a faction emerges, it will be cut down.” Ibn Umar said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: “Whenever a faction emerges, it will be cut down (more than twenty times), until the Dajjal emerges among their ranks” (2).

F – The Battle of al-Harra (3):

Thereafter, outbreaks of civil strife continued in succession. Among them was the well-known Battle of al-Harra during the reign of Yazid ibn Muawiya, in which the sanctity of the City of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was violated, and there were slain