Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4597
أَلاَ إِنَّ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ افْتَرَقُوا عَلَى ثِنْتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً وَإِنَّ هَذِهِ الْمِلَّةَ سَتَفْتَرِقُ عَلَى ثَلاَثٍ وَسَبْعِينَ ثِنْتَانِ وَسَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ وَوَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَهِيَ الْجَمَاعَةُ
alā inna man qablakum min ahli al-kitābi āftaraqūā ʿalā thintayni wasabʿīna millatan wa-inna hadhihi al-millaha sataftariqu ʿalā thalāthin wasabʿīna thintāni wasabʿūna fī an-nāri wawāḥidatun fī al-jannah wahiya al-jamāʿah
Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks
The full narration
Abu `Amir al-Hawdhani said:Mu`awiyah b. Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said: Beware! The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us and said: Beware! The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects, and this community will be split into seventy three: seventy two of them will go to Hell and one of them will go to Paradise, and it is the majority group. Ibn Yahya and `Amr added in their version : “ There will appear among my community people who will be dominated by desires like rabies which penetrates its patient”, `Amr’s version has: “penetrates its patient. There remains no vein and no joint but it penetrates it.”
Source
Sunan Abī Dāwūd · 4597
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