The Nation Will Divide Up Into Seventy-Three Sects

24-11 Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Haysam al-Ajali - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Abul-Ab’bas Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Zakariya al-Qat’tan quoted Bakr ibn Abdullah ibn Habib, on the authority of Tamim ibn Buhlool, on the authority of Abu Muawiyah, on the authority of Suleiman ibn Mihran, on the authority of Ja’far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (as), on the authority of his father (ra), on the authority of his grandfather (MGB), on the authority of his father Al-Hussein ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (as) that he had heard God’s Prophet (sw) say, “