Thread by @Salafiunveiled

Ulema of Ibn Abdul Wahhab's day were clear:

"There has appeared in our land a man who is an innovator, ignorant, astray and leading others astray... causing the disruption of knowledge, and cutting off piety from people's hearts."

~ Najdi Qadi, Sulaiman ibn Suhaim [d. 1773]

"Whoever does not agree with him [Ibn Adul Wahhab], 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)

"Who did he [Ibn Abdul Wahhab] get this information from? Was it revelation? Did he see it in a dream? Or did Shaytan teach it to him?... we need to have the matter explained before his false thoughts come into the souls of people."

~ Najdi Qadi, Sulaiman ibn Suhaim [d. 1773]

“He [MIAW] said ‘If I was able to get to the Chamber of the Messenger, I would destroy it... taken the jewels from it and left it as wood’. Didn’t he hear: ‘whoever shows reverence for the Symbols of Allah, shows piety of his heart?’”{22.32}.

~ Imam Sulaiman Ibn Suhaim [d.1773]

“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 (d.1810), Heresiographer.

“Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab and his followers are people of innovation because they contradict all of that which has been handed down.”

~ Hanbali Scholar & Judge, Muhammad Ibn Fairuz [d. 1801] responding to Wahhabi da’wah just prior to the movement’s bloody invasion of Mecca.

Hanbali Imam Isa Al-Qaddumi (c.1774) was instrumental in preaching against the Wahabbi movement, delivering letters to and from ulema, warning about their impending plight. This Imam, like others, classified the Wahabbi movement as Khawarij.

Imam Muhammad Ibn Gharib [d.1794] initially kept quiet during the Wahhabi takeover. He was soon snitched on by a cult spy who earned his trust, having him disclose his real views of the cult as evil murderers. Refusing to retract his statements, cult authorities had him executed.

Islamic scholars who opposed Ibn Abdul Wahhab at the time often referred to him as the “Najdi Shaykh”, with an intended connotation, equating him to the elderly man from the Najd who appeared in the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ and turned out to be the Devil incarnate.