Other examples include their prohibition of certain kinds of fish, emulating the Jews in forbidding (1) wholesome things; their assisting the disbelievers in fighting the Muslims; and their encouraging the disbelievers to fight the Muslims. Such conduct is not known of any other group of the Ummah.

Another example is their declaring ritually impure any liquids with which adherents of the Sunnah come into contact. This is of the same order as the religion of the Samaritans, who are the Rāfidites of the Jews: they are among the Jews as the Rāfidites are among the Muslims. The Rāfidites resemble them in many respects. The Samaritans believe in no prophet after Moses and Aaron other than Joshua; likewise, the Rāfidites acknowledge neither merit nor imamate in any caliph or Companion other than Ali. The Samaritans deem impure and forbidden any liquids with which outsiders come into contact, and so do the Rāfidites. The Samaritans eat only what they themselves have slaughtered, and so do the Rāfidites: they prohibit meat slaughtered by the People of the Book, and most of them prohibit meat slaughtered by the majority of Muslims because they regard them as apostates, and the slaughtered meat (2) of an apostate is not lawful. The Samaritans are characterized by pride, foolhardiness, stupidity, and false pretensions, despite their small numbers and abject condition; the same is true of the Rāfidites.