- "The Jews split into seventy-one or seventy-two sects, and the Christians split into seventy-one or seventy-two sects, and my nation will split into seventy-three sects." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2/503 - al-Ḥalabī edition), al-Tirmidhī (3/367), Ibn Mājah (2/479), Ibn Ḥibbān in "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1834), al-Ājurī in "al-Sharīʿah" (p. 25), al-Ḥākim (1/128), Aḥmad (2/332), and Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (folio 280/2) through various chains from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr from Abū Salamah from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ." Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the conditions of Muslim." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him