Hadith 22

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays, from Salman-ra that Amir Al-Momineen-asws having said: ‘I-asws heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘My-saww community will be riding the ways of the children of Israel, step of the slipper with a slipper, and step of the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), palm’s width by palm’s width, and cubit with a cubit, to the extent that if they had entered into a hole, you will enter it along with them. Surely, The Torah and the Quran have been Written by One Hand, in one Parchment, with one pen, and the examples and the Sunnahs flow equally’. Then Aban said, ‘Suleym said, ‘And I heard Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws saying: ‘The community will be dividing into seventy-three sects, seventy-two sects would be in the Fire, and a sect in the Paradise, and thirteen from the seventy-three would be arrogating having love for us-asws People-asws of the Household, one of these would be in the Paradise and twelve in the Fire. And as for the sect attaining salvation, the guided, the believers, the Muslims, the harmonised, the rightly guided, following me-asws, submissive to my-asws orders, obedient to me-asws, and disavowing from my-asws enemies, loving to me-asws hating my-asws enemies, that which has recognise my-asws rights, and my-asws Imamate, and Obligation of obeying me-asws in the Book of Allah-azwj, and Sunnah of His-azwj Prophet-saww. It will not become apostate and will not doubt due to Allah-azwj having Radiated its hearts from recognition of our-asws rights, and understanding of our-asws merits, and Inspired it, and Seizing it by its forelocks and including it among our-asws Shias until its hearts are at rest, and achieve certainty, no doubts would mingle into it. Surely, I-asws and my-asws successors-asws after me-asws up to the Day of Qiyamah are guides, Guided, those Allah-azwj Paired them with Himself-azwj and His-azwj Prophet-saww in many Verses from the Book of Allah-azwj, and Purified us-asws, and Protected us-asws, and Made us-asws witnesses over His-azwj creatures, and His-azwj Divine Authorities in His-azwj earth, and His-azwj treasurers upon His-azwj Knowledge, and mines of His-azwj Wisdom, and interpreters of His-azwj Revelation. And He-azwj Made us to be with the Quran and the Quran to be with us-asws. Neither will we-asws separate from it nor will it separate from us-asws, until we-asws return to Rasool-Allah-saww at his-saww Fountain, just as he-saww had said: ‘And that is the one sect from the seventy-three sects, it is the one saved from the Fire and from the entirety of the Fitna (strife), and the straying’s, and the suspicions. They are from the people of the Paradise truly. They would be entering the Paradise without any Reckoning; and the entirety of the seventy-two sects, they the ultra-orthodox without the right, the helpers of the religion of Satan-la, the ones taking from Iblees-la and his-la friends, they are the enemies of Allah-azwj and the enemies of His-azwj Rasool-saww, and enemies of the Momineen, would be entering the Fire without any Recko