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According to this Hadith, like that he wrote the book due to
previous religions, the Islamic his friends' request to explain
Ummah after the Prophet will the saved sect, providing
divide into over 70 or 73 evidence for the firm faith,
sects, only one of which will and clarity on the Hadith.
be saved. This issue was so (Baghdadi, 1988: 2)
important that Muslim sect In a similar vein, Fadl ibn
historiographers even made Shadan Neyshaburi wrote
an effort to reconcile their “Al-‘Izah”, a work in which
respective faiths with this he attempted to establish the
Hadith and came up with Shia faith as the saved sect.
formulas to get to the number (Ref: Neyshaburi, 2009)
seventy-three. In his work “Masail al-
This method was common Imamah”, Nashi Akbar also
during the current research maintained the view that the
period, which spans the first Muslim sects are divided into
five centuries of Islam. For seventy-three groups, based
example, Hakim Samarqandi on the Hadith of the Prophet.
addressed this matter in (Nashi Akbar, 2020: 40)
“Sawad A'zam”. (Ref; Hakim Esfarayeni's viewpoint in
Samarqandi, 2014: 26-27) “Al-Tabsir” aligns with his
Shafi'i also used the teacher, Baghdadi, regarding
numerical context of the the Hadith Iftiraq and its
Hadith Iftiraq to calculate the application by the Sunnis as
number of Muslim sects. the saved sect.
Then, based on the Hadith ‘s Balkhi, the author of
latter half, he regards those “Bayan al-Adyan” who likely
who follow the Sunnah as the had Shia inclinations, presented
saved sect. (Shafi'I, 1993) the chain of narration of the
In his book “Al-Farq Bayn Hadith Iftiraq differently and
al-Firaq”, Baghdadi stated attributed it to Imam Sadiq.
