Chapter 9 — The Birth of the Wahhabi Sect
Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab was born in Najd in 1699. The British Ministry had identified him as the perfect instrument. His scorn for the four madhhabs, his willingness to dismiss the Sahaba, his arrogance, his susceptibility to flattery — all made him ideal.
The heretical ideas that I had planted and cultivated in Muhammad of Najd were: That it is not obligatory to follow any of the four madhhabs. That Jihad through arms is not fard. That salat and fas