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.
Ibn Abi Kabsha's ideas were preserved by his cousin [[Abu Turab]] and Nestorian Adoptionist ex-Magian friend [[Salman of Fars]].
