Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

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][8][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]

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab مُحَمَّدٌ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱللَّهَابِ
Title	Imam, Shaykh
Born	1703 (1703) (1115 A.H) 'Uyayna, Najd[1]
Died	1792(1792-00-00) (aged 88–89) (1206 AH) Diriyah, Emirate of Diriyah[2]
Religion	Islam
Children	List 'Alī (first) Ḥasan Ḥusain Ibrāhīm Abdullāh 'Alī Fāṭimah 'Abdulazīz
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanbali,[3] Ahl al-Ḥadīth/Independent[4]
Creed	Atharī[5]
Movement	Muwahhidun (Wahhabi)[6]
Main interest(s)	ʿAqīdah (Islamic theology)
Notable work(s)	Kitāb at-Tawḥīd (Arabic: كتاب التوحيد; "The Book of Monotheism")[2]
Relatives	Sulayman (brother)
Influenced by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Ibn Taymiyyah Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Muhammad Hayyat ibn Ibrahim al-Sindhi Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
Influenced Muhammad bin Saud House of Saud Muhammad Rashid Rida 'Abd al-'Azīz ibn 'Abd Allāh ibn Bāz Muḥammad ibn al-'Uthaimīn 'Abd ar-Raḥmān as-Sudais Su'ūd ash-Shuraim