(1) باب شَرْحِ السُّنَّةِ
Abu `Amir al-Hawdhani said:
Mu`awiyah b. Abi Sufiyan stood among us and said: Beware! The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) stood among us and said: Beware! The people of the Book before were split up into seventy two sects, and this community will be split into seventy three: seventy two of them will go to Hell and one of them will go to Paradise, and it is the majority group.Ibn Yahya and `Amr added in their version : " There will appear among my community people who will be dominated by desires like rabies which penetrates its patient", `Amr's version has: "penetrates its patient. There remains no vein and no joint but it penetrates it." (PT)
Reference (PT): Sunan Abi Dawud 4597 (PT)
In-book reference (PT): Book 42, Hadith 2 (PT)
English translation (PT): Book 41, Hadith 4580 (PT)