They divided their religion and disagreed in it, just as the Jews and Christians disagreed. And in the hadith: "The Jews divided into seventy-one sects, all of them in the Fire except one, and that is the saved sect. The Christians divided into seventy-two sects, all of them in the Fire except one. My nation will divide into seventy-three sects, all of them in the Fire except one." [Reported by the Companions of the Sunan except for an-Nasa'i from the narration of Muhammad ibn 'Amr from Abu Huraira, without 'all of them' to the end of what is in the places, but in Abu Dawood in the latter part it states, 'Seventy-two in the Fire and one in Paradise.' And in at-Tirmidhi, 'All of them in the Fire, except for one community. And that is the saved one, and the Christians divided into seventy-two sects, all of them in the Fire except one. They asked: Which one is it, O Messenger of Allah? He said: 'What I and my companions are upon.' It was also reported by Ibn Hibban and al-Hakim. And al-Tabarani narrated it from the hadith of 'Awf ibn Malik likewise, except that he said, 'One sect in Paradise and seventy-two in the Fire.' They asked: Which one is it? He said: 'The group.' And from the hadith of Abu Umamah in al-Awsat, with the wording, 'All of them in the Fire except for the largest group.' And for Abu Nu'aym and Ibn Mardawayh from the hadith of Zayd ibn Aslam from Anas similarly. Al-Bazzar and al-Bayhaqi in al-Madkhal from the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As similarly. And it was reported by Aslam ibn Sahl al-Wasiti in his history from the hadith of Jabir in a similar manner. And it was indicated that the questioner about that was Umar ibn al-Khattab, and in its chain there is a letter that is not named, and in the chapter from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas in Ibn Abi Shaybah, and it includes Musa ibn 'Ubaidah, who is weak, and from Muawiyah, reported by Abu Dawood, Ahmad, and al-Hakim, and its chain is good. These paths agreed on the mentioned number initially: and many have contradicted them, including Kathir ibn Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn 'Awf from his father from his grandfather, as he made the people of Musa seventy sects and the people of 'Isa seventy-one, and this nation seventy-two. And he changed in each of them, saying 'except one' and in the latter part 'Islam and the group.' It was reported by al-Tabarani and al-Hakim." And it is said: They divided their religion, believing in some and disbelieving in others. And it was read: They separated from their religion, meaning they left it. And they were factions, each faction following an imam for them. "You are not of them in anything," meaning in the questioning about them and their divisions. And it is said it is from their punishment. And it is said: It is abrogated by the verse of the sword.