English translation
2640. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “The Jews split into seventy-one sects, or seventy-two sects, and the Christians similarly, and my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects.” (Ḥasan) There are narrations on this topic from Sa’d, and ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Amr and ‘Awf bin Mālik. [Abū ‘Eisā said:] The Hadīth of Abū Hurairah is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
