Differences between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State can be traced back to early encounters between Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi differed when they were in Afghanistan in the 1980s, as their successors do today, on the use of extreme violence and the targeting of Shia civilians. 37 According to the Islamic
Firstly the word Salafi as a term of identification is very new in Arabia comming into common use during the 80's. The Najdiyyah would call themselves Muwahideen or The People Of Tawhid. When the actual Najdi Scholars died or started dying like Ibn Sahman and As-Saadi they were replaced with the likes of Ibn Baz and Ibn Uthaymeen.Apart from this, however, there was also a major difference between these salafis and today's Salafis, namely that the former geared their salafi theology, ijtihad and criticism of Sufism towards the modernisation of Islam, which they believed had become backward and rigid, rather than the purification of the religion, which is what today's The word salafi or "early Muslim"in traditional Islamic scholarship means someone who died within the first four hundred years after the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), including scholars such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi'i, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Anyone who died after this is one of the khalaf or "latter-day Muslims". Sharia, Fiqh, and Islamic law explained. There are three words for law in Islam: Sharia, Fiqh, and Qanun. Each of these words represent a different aspect of the word "law" as used in English. The public is further confused because academics or even Muslims tend to use the term "Islamic law" without distinguishing between these three
The Athari/Hanbali creed are two types, one is a Sunni Aqeeedah the other has been Hijacked by the Pseudo Salafis/Wahhabi sect (i.e. the Anthropomorphists) ! (Pseudo Salafi/Wahhabi i.e followers of ibn taymiyyah, Ibn Qiyyum, ibn Abd al-Wahhabi, Albani, Bin Baz etc. ) who has hijacked the term, which is not part of the Ahlus Sunnah Wa'l Jama