What is the authenticity of the hadith: “And this Ummah will split into seventy-three sects”?
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The student : What is the authenticity of the hadith: Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 2:144?
The Shaykh: This is authentic.
The student:Sunan ad-Darimi 17:79 meaning the desires Sunan Ibn Majah 3993Sahih (Darussalam), and he said: This is authentic.
The Shaykh: Yes.
... the People of the Book split in their religion into seventy-two sects
... أهل الكتاب افترقوا في دينهم على اثنتين وسبعين ملةThe Shaykh: This is authentic.
The student:
And this Ummah will split into seventy-three sects
وإن هذه الأمة ستفترق على ثلاثة وسبعين ملةall of which will be in Hell apart from one, which is the main body.
كلها في النار إلا واحدة ؛ وهي الجماعةHe said: “It will emerge from my Ummah a group of people whose desires will carry them away as a dog carries its owner, so no vein or nostril of theirs will remain into which it does not enter. By Allah—O Arabs—if you do not stand by what Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) came with, then other people are even less likely to stand by it”
إنه سيخرج من أمتي أقوام تتجارى بهم تلك الأهواء كما يتجارى الكلب لصاحبه ، فلا يبق منهم عرق ولا منخر إلا دخله ، والله - يا معشر العرب - لَئِنْ لم تقوموا بما جاء به محمد - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لغيركم من الناس أحرى ألا يقوموا بهThe Shaykh: Yes.
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