The ruling on attributing the division of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) into three categories to the Shaykh al-Islam

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it true that Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) was the first to say that tawhid is divided into three categories: tawhid al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship), tawhid al-rububiyyah (oneness of lordship), and tawhid al-asma' wa al-sifat (oneness of the names and attributes)?

Answer:
The one who says this is truly ignorant. He does not read the Qur'an; he does not read the Qur'an, because the three types of tawhid are in the Qur'an. If he read the Qur'an and reflected upon it, he would find them in the Qur'an. Also, they were mentioned before Shaykh al-Islam. Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned them in *Madarij al-Salikin*, and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned them before Ibn al-Qayyim in his fatwas, and others among the scholars of knowledge mentioned them. But it appears that the one who says this statement is either malicious and wants to turn people away from the Shaykh and the Shaykh's call, or he is profoundly ignorant.