A cikin 1891, Muhammad bin Abdullah Al Rashid, abokin hamayyar gidan Saud, ya kame Riyadh, wanda ya jagoranci Ibn Saud mai shekaru 15 a lokacin da iyalinsa don neman mafaka.Da farko sun samu mafaka da kabilar Al Murrah Badouin, sannan suka koma kasar Qatar na tsawon watanni biyu, suka zauna a Bahrain a takaice, daga karshe kuma suka zauna a Kuwait da izinin Ottoman, inda suka zauna kusan shekaru goma.^[25]A ranar 14 ga Nuwamba, 1901, Ibn Saud, tare da rakiyar dan uwansa Muhammad da sauran danginsa, suka kaddamar da farmaki a cikin Nejd, inda suka nufi kabilun da ke da alaka da Rashidawa.^[26] Duk da raguwar tallafin da mahaifinsa bai yarda da shi ba, Ibn Saud ya ci gaba da yakin neman zabensa, daga karshe ya isa Riyadh.A daren 15 ga Janairun 1902, Ibn Saud da wasu mutane 40 suka yi ma'aunin katangar garin ta hanyar amfani da dabino, inda suka yi nasarar kwace birnin Riyadh.An kashe gwamnan Rashidi Ajlan ne a farmakin da Abdullah bin Jiluwi ya kai, wanda ya zama kasar Saudiyya ta uku.^[27] Bayan wannan nasara, sarkin Kuwait Mubarak Al Sabah ya aika da ƙarin mayaka 70, karkashin jagorancin kanin Ibn Saud, Saad, don tallafa masa.Sannan Ibn Saud ya kafa gidansa a fadar kakansa Faisal bin Turki da ke Riyadh.^[26]