بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ
ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following is adapted from Muhammad
ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, a Mujaddid?
With regards the claim that Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab was
a reviver of the Diyn, it is important
we understand a few ahadits that have
been passed down to us.
The first hadits
of the Prophet (s.a.w.) is where he
said, “The best of generations is my generation, then the one after that, then
the one after that. After them will
appear untrustworthy people.” This is
found in Swahih al-Bukhari.
We know from this that the best of generations in knowledge
of sunnah are the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) companions, those that followed
the companions and then those that followed the students of the companions. In other words the first three generations
which ended at 400AH. 400 years after
the Hijrah, the era of the Salaf had finished and the Prophet (s.a.w.) warned that from this period
would arise scholars that lie, untrustworthy people. But before we think we cannot trust anybody, in
another next hadits, the holy Prophet
(s.a.w.) also said, “This knowledge
will be carried by the trustworthy ones of every generation – they will expel
from it the alterations made by those going beyond bounds, the false claims of
the liars, and the false interpretations of the ignorant.” This is found in Mishkat al-Maswabih, and classified as swahih.
The Prophet (s.a.w.)
told us that there will be trustworthy scholars that confirm the sunnah and refute the people of bid’a.
The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said,
“At the head of every one hundred years, Allah will Send to this ummah, one who will revive for it its
Religion.” This is found in Sunan Abu Dawud. Even the Wahhabi scholar al-Albani classified
this hadits as swahih in his Silsilah asw-Swahihah.
The import of this hadits
is crucial to understand, as the word in Arabic for reviver is ‘mujaddid,’ meaning somebody who renews
the religion by enjoining the sunnah
and forbidding the bid’a. Also, we notice how the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.) said that Allah (s.w.t.) would Send a mujaddid every hundred years. This has to mean that any reviver that comes
must affirm the message of the revivers that have gone before. This means that they would have enjoined the sunnah and refuted the innovations of
each age. Here lays the challenge to the
very claim of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab being a reviver, because for him to
be a reviver, the Wahhabis have to present a reviver from each century that
came with the very same message as Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, and what was his
message?
He claimed that the mushrikin
of Makkah were upon tawhid ar-Rabubiyyah
and that their tawhid would have been
perfect had they of not called upon others besides Allah (s.w.t.). He also taught that
the Muslims had declined from the 4th century onwards and fell into
idolatry and that idolatry was rampant in Makkah and Madinah. He also taught that the Muslims of his age
were in the depth of kufr and shirk even more than that of the musrikin of Makkah. He taught that it is permissible to spill
their blood and loot their property and that their testimony of faith, their recitation
of the kalimah, was invalid. He taught that the four madzahib were shirk as
the Muslims were worshipping the a’immah
as the Jews and the Christians worshipped their priests and rabbis. He taught that the annual celebration of Milad an-Nabi was shirk because the people who do so were raising the Prophet (s.a.w.) to the level of god-hood as the
Christians did with Jesus (a.s.).
The problems that the Wahhabiyyah
have, is producing such revivers of each century who came forward and preached
the same message of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab. The Wahhabis cannot ever produce any revivers
of each century who said the same things as Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab and ultimately
their claim of Islamic purity fails. Thus,
we can then safely conclude that it is Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab who was an
innovator and that he bought something new that was unknown to the previous
revivers.
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