Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab’s Son Admitted the Prophet (s.a.w.) is Alive in His Grave
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following is an
excerpt from ad-Durar ats-Tsaniyyah fi al-Ajwibah an-Najdiyyah, by
‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, the son of the heretic, Muhammad ibn
‘Abd al-Wahhab. This letter was written
1218 AH / 1803 CE, after the Wahhabis conquered Makkah and Madina, perpetrating
many atrocities before being driven off again.
He wrote, “And what we
believe is that the status of our Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) is
absolutely the highest status of Creation, and that he is alive in his grave
with the life of the barzakh, higher than the life of the shuhada’
that has been Mentioned in Revelation, because he is better than them without
doubt. And that he hears the Muslims’
sending salaam upon him, and that it is sunnah to visit him. However, it is not allowed to set out on a
journey except to visit the masjid and pray in it, and if he intends
along with that to visit the grave of the Prophet (s.a.w.), then there
is no objection. And whoever spends his
most precious time in sending the swalawat upon him according to the
manner narrated from him, then he has succeeded in attaining the bliss of both
worlds, and it will suffice him from his worries and stress, as it is mentioned
in the hadits from him.”
Unlike what later
Wahhabis say, even the son of the founder of their sect believed, as Sunni
Muslims do, that the Prophet (s.a.w.) is alive in his grave. Everything else, however, is contrary to the
established positions of Sunni Islam.
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