| The Wahhabi Tribulation | |
| Author: | Ahmad Zayni Dahlan |
| Title Orig: | فتنة الوهابية |
| Country: | Arabian Peninsula |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Subject: | History of Wahhabism, Islamic Theology |
| Publisher: | Işık Kitabevi, Hakikat Kitabevi |
| Pub Date: | 1878 |
| Pages: | 24 pages |
Fitnat al-Wahhabiyya (Arabic: فتنة الوهابية|lit=The Wahhabi [[Fitna (word)|Fitna]]) is a booklet written by Ahmad Zayni Dahlan (1816/17–1886) the Grand Mufti of the Shafi'is in Mecca in the late years of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
Dahlan wrote this work against the Wahhabi creed and he sharply inveighed against it, and called them an evil sect. He criticised the Wahhabis for declaring Muslims to be infidels and polytheists. He also accused the Wahhabis of extremism for killing their Muslim opponents.[2]
The book describes the history of the heretical tenets of Wahhabism in Najd and the Hijaz and the tortures of the Wahhabis inflicted upon Muslims; in which Dahlan exposed and refuted some of what he saw and witnessed from the Wahhabi extreme and terrorist acts and crimes besides their radical beliefs and misguidance in aqidah (Islamic creed).[3]
During the time that Wahhabism was rapidly spreading. He wrote:[4] [5]