A few years before Abduh's death, the term “Salafiyya” discretely found its way into Rashid Rida’s seminal journal "Al-Manār". At first, Rida understood the word in a narrow theological sense and used it as an adjective that characterized the unique creed of the pious ancestors (ʿaqīda wāḥida salafiyya), which he openly equated with Hanbali theology. In a 1913 article, he declared that Najd, the heart of today’s Saudi Arabia, was the region in which Salafi theology was the most widespread. However, he noted that the Wahhabis were overcome with harshness (jafāʾ) and exaggeration (ghuluw) and were not “moderate” like the other Salafis in Iraq, the Hijaz, Greater Syria, and Egypt.This distinction was significant. In Rida’s mind, moderation (iʿtidāl) was a defining characteristic of his school of thought.