Original sentence: He rejected certain common Muslim practices which he regarded as amounting to either religious innovation (bid‘ah) or polytheism (Shirk).Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (; ; 1703 – 22 June 1792) was a Sunni Islam preacher and scholar from Saudi Arabia in central Arabia who claimed to "purify" Islam by returning it to what, he believed, were the original principles of that religion as the salaf, that is first three generations of Muslims, understood it
Edited sentence: He therefore rejected certain common Muslim practices which he regarded as amounting to either religious innovation (bid‘ah) or polytheism (Shirk).Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab (; ; 1703 – 22 June 1792) was a Sunni Islam preacher and scholar from Saudi Arabia in central Arabia who founded an Islamic movement in an effort to purify Islam by returning Muslims to what, he believed, were the original principles of that religion that is Following, Quran, Hadith and Understanding it in the way the salaf first three generations of Muslims understood it