Translations:On Dokuzuncu Mektup/155/en
“My community will be divided into seventy-three sects, and only one among them will attain salvation.” He was asked: “Who are they?” He replied: “Those who follow me and my Companions,”(*[1])meaning the Sunnis or Ahl al-Sunna wa’l-Jama‘a.
- ↑ *Abu Da’ud, Sunna, 1; Ibn Maja, Fitan, 17; Tirmidhi, Iman, 18; Musnad, ii, 232; iii, 120, 148; ‘Ali al- Qari, Sharh al-Shifa’, i, 679.