Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Sulayman al-Tamimi Al Najdi (1703–1792 C.E., 1115–1206 A.H.) na he be an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, religious leader, jurist, den reformer, wey na he be from Najd insyd Arabian Peninsula wey he be considered as de eponymous founder of de Wahhabi movement.

De label "Wahhabi" no be claimed by ein followers. Born to a family of jurists, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab ein early education consist of learning a fairly standard curriculum of jurisprudence according to de Hanbali school, wich na be most prevalent insyd ein area of birth. He promote strict adherence to Islamic law, proclaiming de necessity of returning directly to de Quran den Hadith literature rather dan relying on traditional interpretations, wey he insist say every Muslim –  male den female –  personally read den study de Quran. He oppose blind taqlid wey he call for de use of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning thru research of scripture).

Works
Sam of ein major works dey include:
 Risālah Aṣlu Dīn al-Islām wa Qāʿidatuhu (The Foundation and Principles of Islam)
 Kitāb Tafsīr li-Baʿḍ Suwar al-Qurʾān (A Commentary on Some Surahs of the Qurʾan)
 Kitāb at-Tawḥīd (The Book of the Oneness of God)
 Kashf al-Shubuhāt (Clarification of the Doubts)
 Thalāthatu’l-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles)
 al-Usūl al-Thalāthah  (A concise version of Thalāthatu’l-Uṣūl which is aimed for junior students)
 al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Foundations)
 al-Uṣūl al-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles)
 Nawāqiḍ al-Islām (Nullifiers of Islam)
 Ādāb al-Mashy ilā al-Ṣalāh (Manners of Walking to the Prayer)
 Uṣūl al-Īmān (Foundations of Faith)
 Faḍāʾil al-Islam (Excellent Virtues of Islam)
 Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān (Excellent Virtues of the Qur'an)
 Majmūʿ al-Ḥadīth ʿalā Abwāb al-Fiqh (Compendium of the Hadith on the Main Topics of the Fiqh)
 Mukhtaṣar al-ʾImān (Abridgement of the Faith; i.e. the summarised version of a work on Faith)
 Mukhtaṣar al-Insāf wa’l-Sharḥ al-Kabīr (An abridgement of the Equity and the Great Explanation)
 Mukhtaṣar Sīrat al-Rasūl (An abridged Biography of the Messenger)
 Kitāb al-Kabāʾir (The Book of Great Sins)
 al-Radd ʿalā al-Rafida (The Refutation of the Rejectionists)
 Mukhtaṣar al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Mursalāh ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah wa al-Muʿaṭṭilah (An abridgment of the Thunderbolts Sent Against the Jahmiyyah and the Negators)
 References 

Read further
  Valentine, S. R., "Force & Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond", Hurst & Co, London, 2015, 



Online
 Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb: Muslim theologian, in Encyclopædia Britannica Online, by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, Parul Jain, Satyavrat Nirala and Adam Zeidan

 External links 

 Biodata at MuslimScholars.info

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