Sayyiduna Awf bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My Ummah will divide into seventy-odd sects. Among them, the greatest trial for my Ummah will be the people who judge matters by analogy based on their own opinion; they will make the unlawful lawful and the lawful unlawful." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Ibn Majah recorded the opening part of this report.
Al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب العلم / 841
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