:''The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) 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.''<ref>[http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/abudawud/040.sat.html USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts]</ref>