Using the Kenizite Midrashim, Ibn Abi Kabsha tried to establish unity between people Arabs who kept the Laws of Moses and people Arabs who accepted the 1stC. Romaniote Rabbi Jesus as Messiah. However, the Sassanian [[Manicheans]] (Hanifs) were not impressed by him because he respected the Old Testament while the [[Ishmaelite-Sadducees]] were not impressed by him because he accepted Jesus as Messiah. When people first heard his ideas they used to say that he had become a [[Tsabi]] -a type of Persian Messianic Hebrew later described in Islam as part way between Adoptionists, Persians and Jews and from which Manicheism itself had originally emerged. His Ibn Abi Kabsha's ideas were preserved by his friends [[Abu Turab]] and [[Salman of Fars]].
