Thread by @SalafisUnveiled

Mohammed Hijab declares that he takes NOTHING from the khariji Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab [d. 1792] and claims he is “NOT a scholar in the (Hanbali) Madhbab” and “NOT authoritative in the least”.

And he is absolutely right ✅👍🏼

This statement from Mohammed Hijab - who has a huge Muslim & Salafi-leaning following - is good news. Speakers calling out the deception and exposing the truth of the Salafi/Wahhabi sect should be supported in doing so, and I pray for good in the bothers’ journey 🤲🏼

Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab [d. 1792] was not a scholar by any legitimate standard. There is no case of any contemporary Hanbali scholar of his time holding him in the post of a scholar in any field. MIAW's sons and students did, but that's what cults and sects do (in-bred).

His heresies were identified by many scholars of his time and after, not only from Hanbali Athari ulema such as Imam Muhammad Al-Afaliqi [d.1751] who deemed him unqualified and his principles “flithy”, but indeed, by scholars from all 4 legal schools.

As established by his own older brother:

“He [MIAW] does not possess one characteristic of the people of ijtihad. By Allah, indeed he does not possess one tenth! Yet he is opening his mouth and speaking a great deal of ignorance!”

~ Imam Sulaiman Ibn Abdul Wahhab [d.1794]

A teacher of both Wahhab brothers:

“Your filthy principles” (qawāʿiduka ʾl-khabītha) arrived “in two leaves” (fī waraqatayn) and “in your own handwriting” (bi-khaṭṭ yadika).”

~ Muhammad al-Afaliqi al-Hanbali [d.1751] “Tahakkum al-muqallidīn” (on receiving a letter from MIAW).

“Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab was shown to have reached the level of a false Prophet and a liar of the same capacity as Musailimah, Sajjah the false Prophetess, Tulayha & others. As for his father, he was a pious man.”

~ Imam Abdullah Ibn Dawud al-Basri al-Hanbali [d.1810].

"Whoever does not agree with him [MIAW], then he judges them with having committed major kufr... So in reality he is calling to the Tawhid of himself rather than to the Tawhid of Allah."

~ Najdi Qadi, Sulaiman ibn Suhaim [d. 1773] (Scholar at time of ibn Abdul Wahhab).

Indeed, Ibn Humaid [d. 1878], another great Hanbali scholar and mufti of Mecca, wrote a continuation of Ibn Rajab’s "Tabaqat Al-Hanabila": an Official Encyclopaedia for Hanbali Scholars, and does NOT include MIAW. He does, however, include both MIAW’s brother and father.

Ibn Humaid [d. 1878] in fact notes that MIAW’s father was angry at his younger son's unwillingness to specialise in jurisprudence and warned people of “how much evil will you see from Muhammad” [Suhub ul-Wabila].