The Wahhabi Movement [Part1]
Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, born in 1703 in the town of Uyaynah in the Najd area, was the founder of the Wahhabi creed. His father, Abdul Wahhab, who was a Qazi (judge) in Najd, banished him for preaching what he and almost all scholars (including his other son, Sulaiman bin Abdul Wahhab) called heresy. Ibne Wahhab was given refuge in Yamamah where, incidentally, Musailamah Kazzab (the chief of Banu Haneefah who falsely claimed prophet-hood during the time of Hadrat Abu Bark) used to live. In 1740, Ibne Wahhab was approached by the British colonialists, who arranged a meeting between him and Muhammad bin Saud, chief of the A’nnza tribe in Al-Diriyah.
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