The term “Wahhabi” and Followers

The term Wahhabi was historically used and claimed by the Wahhabis themselves. Both Islamic/Western scholars agree on this. Ibn Baz says this is a famous label of the scholars of Tawhid attributed to Muhammad Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab: https://youtu.be/_4m6F_JV-FE

1. al-Fawzan calls the name an honorable one: https://youtu.be/SCHBAylb2WQ
2. In al-Durar al-Saniyyah it was said: “They hear of us, al-Wahhabiyyah” “And we are on the path of the Wahhabiyyah”

“And you have said this is the religion of the Wahhabiyyah, and yes it is our religion Alhamdullilah” Author quotes a line from al-Shafi’i to parallel the situation: “If loving the family of Muhammad is Rafd then let the Thaqalayn vouch that I am a Rafidhi”

“And that is why the Wahhabiyyah call their Madhab the Aqidah of the Salaf” “And from the virtues of the Wahhabiyyah is they destroyed innovations”

“Indeed we are Wahhabiyyah”

Sulayman Ibn Sahman, a Wahhabi Shaykh, wrote a book which includes al-Wahhabiyyah al-Najdiyyah in the title:

Ibn Sahman in his book uses the label time and time again; “The Wahhabiyyah have not made visiting graves Shirk, the Wahhabiyyah made worshipping other than Allah Shirk.”

In a book by Muhammad Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab, there is a title: “Showing who the Imam of the Wahhabiyyah Takfird and who he fought” https://shamela.ws/book/7603/6

The son of Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab, Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab wrote a book on the Rafidha’s objections to the Da’wah of Tawhid, al-Wahhabiyyah.

The grandson of Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab, Abd ul-Rahman Ibn Hasan Ibn Muhammad Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab in his book(s) repeatedly uses the title. “The Wahhabiyyah do not takfir except what the scholars have agreed on its Kufr” https://al-maktaba.org/book/8571/19

Muhammad Rashid Rida in his book “al-Wahhabiyyah and the Rafidha” uses the label tens of times: