(1) باب شَرْحِ السُّنَّةِ
Narrated AbuHurayrah:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Jews were split up into seventy-one or seventy-two sects; and the Christians were split up into seventy one or seventy-two sects; and my community will be split up into seventy-three sects. (FR)
Reference (FR): Sunan Abi Dawud 4596 (FR)
In-book reference (FR): Book 42, Hadith 1 (FR)
English translation (FR): Book 41, Hadith 4579 (FR)