Sunan Abi Dawud 4596

سنن أبي داود#4596Sahih

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) 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

Scholarly Authentication

We show the most cautious grade (weakest-wins) as the overall label. Individual scholars graded it as follows:

Al-AlbaniHasan Sahih

Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul HamidHasan Sahih

Shuaib Al ArnautHasan Sahih

Zubair Ali ZaiIsnaad Hasan

In-book reference: 42:1

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