Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab مُحَمَّدٌ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهَابِ | |
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Title | Imam, Shaykh |
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Born | 1703 | (1115 A.H)
Died | 1792 | (aged 88–89) (1206 AH)
Religion | Islam |
Children | List
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Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanbali,[3] Ahl al-Ḥadīth/Independent[4] |
Creed | Atharī[5] |
Movement | Muwahhidun (Wahhabi)[6] |
Main interest(s) | ʿAqīdah (Islamic theology) |
Notable work(s) | Kitāb at-Tawḥīd (Arabic: كتاب التوحيد; "The Book of Monotheism")[2] |
Relatives | Sulayman (brother) |
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (Arabic: مُحَمَّدٌ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهَابِ) was a Sunni scholar from Saudi Arabia and the creator of the Wahhabi movement.[7][8][9][10][11] He was a follower of the Hanbali madhab and he promoted that every Muslim should study the Qur'an and hadith instead of blindly following the scholars and making independent fatwas.[12][13][14] He took inspiration from Ibn Taymiyyah and started to heavily reform the religion by not following medieval rulings.[15][16]
He was not a great intellectual like Ibn Qudama, Ibn Taymiyya, or Ibn al-Qayyim but rather an activist.
Muhammad ibn ῾Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), was a scholar and Hanbali jurist who called for a return to the fundamental sources of Islamic revelation, the Qur᾽an and sunna (example of Muhammad) for direct interpretation, resulting in decreased attention to and reliance upon medieval interpretations of these sources