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Najiyah" (the Saved Sect) ascribed to our Prophet (pbuh). The most
widely referred to part of this fabricated hadith – one that is part of
various narrations but has no foundation in the verses of the Qur'an –
is as follows:

"My nation will split-up into seventy-three sects, all of
them in the Fire save one: that which I and my Companions
are upon."

This line of reasoning takes place in different narrations with var-
ious additions or deletions. For instance, in at-Tirmidhi there is no
mentioning of "All of them in the Fire save one." In Hakim, this hadith is
narrated very briefly saying, "My nation will be divided into some
seventy sects; the largest one acts of its own accord and makes what
is lawful unlawful, and makes that which is unlawful lawful." (Al-
Mustadrak, 4/430)

The disintegration and fragmentation we see in the Islamic world

is the outcome of a mindset that does not find the Qur'an to be suffi-
cient, and attempts bringing about a different form of Islam through
superstitions, bigotry and fabricated hadiths and traditions. Instead of
following the example of the Muslims at the time of our Prophet
(pbuh), such bigoted and fanatical groups make up their own fabrica-
tions of what is lawful and unlawful and believe only in their own con-
jectures; they declare other Muslims who practice Islam in a different

way to be apostates. However, God has precluded the grounds for
such a mindset quite clearly in the Qur'an:

You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of God verify
things carefully. Do not say, "You are not a believer, to someone who
greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the goods of this
world. With God there is booty in abundance. That is the way you
were before but God has been kind to you. … (Qur'an, 4:94)