Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The Children of Israel (that is, the Jews) split into seventy-one sects, and the Christians split into seventy-two sects, and my Ummah will exceed them by one sect. All of them will go to Hell, except the great majority (al-sawad al-a'zam)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, and something similar in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir; its chain contains Abu Ghalib, whom Yahya bin Ma'in and others declared thiqah (trustworthy); the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), and the same is the case with one of the two chains of al-Mu'jam al-Kabir.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الفتن - أعاذنا الله منها / 12096
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
Hadith Takhrij«اخرجه الطبراني فى المعجم الكبير (8035 و 8051 و 8052 و 8053 و 8054) ، أخرجه المعجم الكبير للطبراني برقم: 8035، 8054، وأخرجه المعجم الأوسط للطبراني برقم: 7198»