Advice on Disputes and Factionalism Surrounding the Salafiyyah

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Excellency the Shaykh. One of the brothers says: In this time, groups and parties have multiplied, and each claims to be upon the truth. So what do you advise, Your Excellency, the ordinary Muslim? With whom should he go, and to whom should he belong? Also, is it permissible to form a party or group around the Salafiyyah under the name of the Salafiyyah?

Answer:
O brothers, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us of this: He informed us that there will be disagreement, and not a little disagreement, but much. And the further the time recedes, the more this disagreement increases.
But what protects one from this is returning to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Praise be to Allah, He has made clear to us what removes disagreement for whoever seeks the truth. As for the one who is fanatical about his opinion, or his Shaykh, or his Imam, he does not seek the truth; there is no remedy for him. But the one who seeks the truth is required to return to the Book and the Sunnah, and he will find, if Allah wills, the removal of disagreement and the attainment of agreement and unity. May Allah reward you. One of the brothers says: Given the importance of this lecture and that it is for the attendees and guests, I think it should be recorded so that the da'iyah (preachers) can obtain copies of it; because it contains guiding material, and it is directed to them directly. And I inform you, I inform you that His Highness the Prince, by my direction, has ordered the recording of all lectures, and they will be, if Allah wills, in accordance with the direction of His Highness the Prince in the days to come. As for the claim of the Salafiyyah.
The Salafiyyah is not a specific madhhab (school of jurisprudence); the Salafiyyah is the original path. It is not a sect; the Salafiyyah is the original path, and everything else is the deviant. So the original path is the Salafiyyah. The Salafiyyah means what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were upon. Whoever is upon what I am upon today and my Companions, that is the Salafiyyah, and it is the original path. Whoever opposes it is the deviant, and whoever follows it is the one upon the truth.
As for making the Salafiyyah a sect or a specific madhhab, that is an error. How can the original path be made like the other disagreements and the other sects?

The presenter:
May Allah reward you