Are the Jews and the Christians among the seventy-three sects?

Question:
And Satan is not a favor from Allah. The favor of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is that this Ummah will split into seventy-three sects. Do the jinn and the Christians fall under this splitting, or is it only the people of this Ummah who are the narrators of these reports?

Answer:
The reference is to this Ummah, those who claim affiliation with Islam. As for the Jews and the Christians, they are two independent religions mentioned by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Jews split into seventy-one sects, and the Christians split into seventy-two sects. And this Ummah, the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), those who claim affiliation with Islam, will split. This is a report about the future, and it has come to pass as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) foretold. The splitting occurred among those who claim affiliation with Islam, and only those who held fast to the Book and the Sunnah, and the creed of the people of the Sunnah and the community, remained upon the correct Islam.