about the Saved Sect.

The questioner : Regarding the existing... groups and sects, do these groups fit the description in the hadith?

The Shaykh : Or do you mean that the hadith applies to them?

The questioner : The hadith—pardon me—does it apply to the existing groups?

The Shaykh : All right, the answer is: The Saved Sect is not limited by a revelation from the sky to a specific sect among these sects, or to a specific party among these parties. However, we have taken the decisive evidence indicating who belongs to the Saved Sect. So, however many old or new schools of thought you enumerate, and however many parties, associations, and groups you imagine that exist today, every individual among them who applies the methodology or the sign that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) established for the Saved Sect is of the Saved Sect, whether he is from this group or that group or another. We are now giving a very clear example. Do you think that everyone who claims to be from the people of hadith, or from the people of the Sunnah, or that he is Salafi in methodology and creed, is necessarily truthful? Is every individual among these claimants necessarily truthful in what he says, and is his reality in conformity with what he says? Perhaps, and perhaps not. So, the issue is not about a correct claim of affiliation, or a claim of affiliation to a sect with a new name; rather, the matter concerns every Muslim’s attempt to observe the sign that the Messenger (peace be upon him) established for the Saved Sect: to be upon what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were upon. This is the decisive ruling in answering this question. And naturally, there is a great deal of room for detail, and a great deal indeed, but the time now is not a place for it.
Yes.