A Sunni Critical Study of Vahhabi's View on Resort, Tavassol, on the Basis of the Tradition of Estesqa

The study, being performed in a descriptive and analytic method, has intended to explain the difference between Sunni scholars and Vahhabis` on tavassol and to defend Quranic basis of tavassol with regard to Sunni scholars` views. Considering themselves as Sunnis, Vahhabis following Ibn Taymiyyah and Mohammad Ibn Abdolvahhab have refuted some kinds of tavassol including tavassol to deads of high degree of religious perfectins and to perfect people and, on this basis, view all other Muslim as being polytheism. One of their proofs for their claim lies in the tradition of estesqa and Omar Ibn Khattab`s turning to the Prophet`s uncle for demanding to rain. Yet, Sunni scholars have agreed with tavassol and crittisized vahhabis` attitude of the tradition.