Have heard a Hadeeth, which means that there are 75 groups in Judaism; 74 groups in Christianity; and there are 73 groups in Islam; there is only one group of Muslims out of 73 groups will go to Paradise, because these Muslims are on the right path.
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Brother:
I have heard a Hadeeth, which means that there are 75 groups in Judaism; 74
groups in Christianity; and there are 73 groups in Islam; there is only one
group of Muslims out of 73 groups will go to Paradise, because these Muslims
are on the right path.
Please kindly explain if this Hadeeth is
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BarakAllahufi
A Muslim sister
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Answer:
How many sects in Islam
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person,
no grave, no prophet, no
imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah
Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the
seal of His Messengers.
Allah's Messenger (saws) said: ‘There
will befall my Ummah exactly (all those) evils which befell the people of
Israel, so much so that if there was one amongst them who openly committed
fornication with his mother there will be among my Ummah one who will do that,
and if the people of Israel were fragmented into seventy-two sects, my
Ummah will be fragmented into seventy-three sects. All of them will be
in Hell Fire except one sect.’ They (the Companions) said: ‘ O
Allah's Messenger (saws), which is that?’ Whereupon he (saws) replied: ‘It
is one to which I and my companions belong.’
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 4579 Narrated by
The Prophet (saws) said: ‘The Jews were
split up into seventy-one or seventy-two sects; and the Christians were split
up into seventy one or seventy-two sects; and my community will be split up
into seventy-three sects.’
Amongst the prophecies regarding the times to come before
the Day of Judgment that the Messenger of Allah (saws) warned the Ummah, one
amongst them was that the Muslim Ummah would unfortunately be fragmented into
seventy-three sects. He (saws) also
warned that seventy-two amongst these seventy-three sects of the Muslim Ummah
will be in the Hell Fire, and the only one which will be saved by the Mercy of
Allah is the one to which the Prophet (saws) and his noble companion
belonged. And Allah is our witness,
the Prophet (saws) and his noble companions never ever claimed to belong to any
creed or sect, except the one united brotherhood of the ‘muslims’.
Your
Question: Please kindly explain if this Hadeeth is
Both the above quoted hadiths reported by Tirmidhi and
Abu-Dawood are regarded by the eminent scholars of ‘ahadeeth’ as
authentic and ‘Saheeh’.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and
He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
Wister