145—Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad informed us: al-Husayn ibn Isma‘il informed us; Yusuf ibn Musa narrated to us; al-Muharibi narrated to us, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad; alternatively:
146—Al-Hasan ibn Uthman informed us; al-Husayn ibn Isma‘il narrated to us; Abbas ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Thabit ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad; alternatively:
147—Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Bakr al-Basri informed us: al-Hasan ibn Uthman informed us; Ya‘qub ibn Sufyan narrated to us; Qabisah narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, from Abdullah ibn Yazid, from Abdullah ibn Amr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
“What befell the Children of Israel will surely befall my ummah, exactly as one sandal matches another. Even if there were among them someone who openly had intercourse with his mother, there would be among my ummah someone who would do the same.”
In Thabit’s narration: “The Children of Israel split into seventy-two sects, and they will exceed them by one sect.” ⦗112⦘
In Thabit’s narration, he said: “And my ummah will divide into seventy-three sects, all of them in the Fire except one.” They asked, “Messenger of Allah, which one is it?” In Thabit’s narration, he was asked, “Who is the one sect?” He said: “That which I and my Companions follow.” In Thabit’s narration, he said: “What I and my Companions follow.”