It is established in the authentic hadith regarding the saved sect; what are its characteristics? And does it enter the Fire to fulfill the oath?

The questioner : It came in the authentic hadith that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said that there are seventy-three sects... all of them are in the Fire except one. A questioner asks, and he is...: What are the characteristics of the saved sect? And then, does it enter the Fire along with those who enter with the seventy-three sects to fulfill the oath, or not?

The Shaykh : The saved sect is one about which the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed with a clear and distinct report, leaving no room for doubt, nor even for questioning about it, when he said: . So every individual, indeed every group and every community, that follows the path of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions in all aspects of the Shari'ah, in creed, judgment, character, and conduct, is the saved sect. It is the one the Messenger (peace be upon him) saved from being among the perishing sects, which number seventy-two.
As for whether this saved sect, about which the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed that it is not like the perishing sects that enter the Fire, enters the Fire in order to fulfill the oath of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in His saying: ? The answer—and I think we have discussed this in detail in some of the cassettes—is...

The questioner: Yes ... .

The Shaykh : The answer in brief is that the verse provides the answer in its entirety. It is true that the verse explicitly states that no one, whether righteous or wicked, remains but will enter it, based on the explicit text of the verse: , meaning: entering it. But the answer lies in its entirety: . So every Muslim enters and comes to the Fire, but there is a difference between coming as a passage, a "transit," being shielded from being affected by the Fire, and entering such that the Fire touches him with punishment, even if only by scorching; because every person is according to his sins. And there is a difference between entering in the sense of staying. The punishment has many types according to the sins of these people. As for the righteous and the pious, whom Allah has forbidden their bodies from the Fire, these pass through the Fire of Hell and it does not touch them with punishment. So at that time, what the Messenger (peace be upon him) affirmed in the hadith of the seventy-three sects of the perishing sects, when he said about them: ; this Fire is not the Fire about which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) swore, when He said: . This Fire, , for many people is of the type about which he (peace be upon him) ruled regarding the seventy-two sects. As for the saved sect, regarding that type of Fire, it is a sect that enters the Fire, but the Fire does not touch any of them with punishment. This is the summary of the answer.