Muhammad ibn abd al-wahhab wikipedia

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (Arabic: مُحَمَّدٌ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهَابِ) was a Sunni scholar from Saudi Arabia and the creator of the Wahhabi movement.^{[7][9][10][11]} He was a follower of the Hanbali madhab and he promoted that every Muslim should study the Qur'an and hadith instead of blindly following the scholars and making independent fatwas.^[12][13][14] He took inspiration from Ibn Taymiyyah and started to heavily reform the religion by not following medieval rulings.^[15][16]

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