- "The Jews divided into seventy-one sects, one of which is in Paradise and seventy in the Fire. The Christians divided into seventy-two sects, one of which is in Paradise and seventy-one in the Fire. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, my nation will divide into seventy-three sects, one of which is in Paradise and seventy-two in the Fire." It was said: "O Messenger of Allāh, who are they?" He said: "They are the community." Narrated by Ibn Mājah (2/479), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Sunnah" (63), and al-Lālakāʾī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (1/23/1) through two chains from ʿAbbād ibn Yūsuf, who reported from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, from Rāshid ibn Saʿd, from ʿAwf ibn Mālik, as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This isnād is good; its men are trustworthy and well-known, except for ʿAbbād ibn Yūsuf, who is al-Kindī al-Ḥimṣī. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" and others have declared him reliable, and a group narrated from him. The ḥadīth has supporting evidence, some of which was mentioned earlier under number (203).

- "Spread peace and you will be safe." Narrated by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (477/1266), Aḥmad (4/286), Abū Yaʿlá (101/2), Ibn Ḥibbān (1934), and Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (1/277), as well as al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (356), Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl al-Nīsābūrī in his ḥadīths (15/1), ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Sharābī in "Aḥādīth Abī al-Yamān wa-ghayrih" (83/1), and al-Qaḍāʿī (61/1) from Qanān ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwsajah, from al-Barāʾ, as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. From this chain, it was narrated by al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Muntaqá min Masmūʿātihi bi-Marw" (71/1). Al-ʿUqaylī said: "ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad narrated to us: I heard my father say: I heard Yaḥyá ibn Ādam say: Qanān is not from your group. My father said: Yaḥyá rarely mentioned people; I never heard him mention anyone except Qanān." Al-ʿUqaylī said: