Wahabi Belief: the Prophet will Sit next to Allah!

Ibn Taimiyah believed that the prophet will sit next to Allah (swt) on the throne

 

Majmo’a al-Fatawa, Volume 4 page 374:

فَقَدْ حَدَثَ الْعُلَمَاءُ الْمَرْضِيُّونَ وَأَوْلِيَاؤُهُ الْمَقْبُولُونَ : أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُجْلِسُهُ رَبُّهُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ مَعَهُ .

The reliable and acceptable scholars narrated that, God shall make Muhammad the messenger of Allah sit next to Him [swt] on the throne.

Al-Nahr al-Mad by Abu Hayan, Volume 1 page 254:

وقرأت في كتاب لأحمد بن تيمية هذا الذي عاصرنا وهو بخطه سماه كتاب العرش إن الله تعالى يجلس على الكرسي وقد أخلى منه مكانا يقعد فيه معه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

I read in a book in the hand writing of Ahmad ibn Taimiyah, who was from our era, with the title 'Kitab al-Arsh', (wherein) he said in it, that Allah sits on a throne and has a free space to make the messenger of Allah sit on it

Comment

This belief has been derived from from Christianity. We read in New Testament Mark's gospel 16:19 (King James version):

So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.