The ruling on attributing the disparagement of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab to Imam al-San'ani

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it true that Imam Isma'il al-San'ani (may Allah have mercy on him) disparaged him?

Answer:
Muhammad ibn… I heard. Yes. That Imam Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-San'ani (may Allah have mercy on him) disparaged Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab after he had praised him. As I explained to you in *Tathir al-'Aqidah*, the Shaykh, Imam Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-San'ani (may Allah have mercy on him), composed a poem praising the Shaykh and his da'wah. When the poem was published, the enemies of the Shaykh in the land of Najd were envious of it, and they sent two men. They sent two men to Yemen; one was called Murbad and the other was called 'Abd al-Rahman al-Najdi.
They did not meet Shaykh Muhammad ibn Isma'il; rather, they found some people from the inhabitants of Sana'a who had shirk (associating partners with Allah) among them. They said to them: "The Shaykh, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, has supported and backed this, and we need something to refute it." So one of the drunkards stood up and composed a poem imitating the meter and rhyme of Imam al-San'ani's poem. It says: "I have returned from what I said about the Najdis, for it has become clear to me that they are the opposite of what I held." And so on.
This is not what Imam al-San'ani said; rather, this is a false accusation against him, a poem fabricated and attributed to him by the wicked in response to these two wretches, whom envy drove to seek this unjust poem from them. Yes.
Shaykh Ibn Sahman refuted it in a book titled *Tibrat al-Shaykhayn al-Imamayn* (The Exoneration of the Two Imams). It is a good book that refuted it in both prose and poetry. Yes.