Al-Haythamī cited it in al-Majmaʿ (7/288) with the first wording and said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Ṣaghīr (1) and al-Kabīr, and the narrators of al-Kabīr are narrators of the authentic collections.” It is further corroborated by the hadith preceding it and by other hadiths with similar wording, some of which will follow.

1957 — “A group from my Ummah will remain manifest upon the truth. Those who forsake them will not harm them, until Allah’s command comes while they remain so.”

It was narrated by Muslim (6/52–53), Abū Dāwūd (2/202), al-Tirmidhī (2/36), Ibn Mājah (2/464–465), Aḥmad (5/278–279), and also al-Ḥākim (4/449–450), on the authority of Thawbān in a report attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

The hadith was also narrated with an addition, in the wording: “A group from my Ummah will remain manifest upon the religion, prevailing over their enemy. Those who oppose them will not harm them, apart from the hardships that befall them, until Allah’s command comes to them while they remain so.” They asked: “Where will they be?” He replied: “In Jerusalem and the regions surrounding Jerusalem.”

ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad narrated it in al-Musnad (5/269), saying: I found in my father’s book, in his own handwriting: “Mahdī ibn Jaʿfar al-Ramlī narrated to me: Ḍamrah narrated to us, from al-Shaybānī—whose name was Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿAmr—from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥaḍramī, from Abū Umāmah,” in a report attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it in al-Kabīr (7643) through another chain from Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, with the same wording. This chain is weak because ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥaḍramī is unknown. Al-Dhahabī said in al-Mīzān: “I do not know of anyone who narrated from him besides Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿAmr al-Shaybānī.”