1. Avoiding the Misguided Sects: The Prophetic Solution

2.  Not to their sect or leader or their books disconnecting from the sunnah and the jamaah which followsit. It calls to Quran and sunnah and the understanding of sahabas Nor do they carry a name for the group but their leader is prophet and they stick close to understanding of sahabas

3.  Things was fine till the Khawarij appeared and split the Muslims how was the situation during the sahabas time and prophet’s single Ummah singe group holding on to the Quran and sunnah and the later tabi - tabi tabieen held on To the understanding of the sahabas  This takes knowledge and understanding. Are we following our leader prophet and his sahabas with the way they collectively understood.

4.  After warning his Ummah about the splitting and differing that will take place, the Messenger of Allaah clarified that the one single group of the 73 sects that will go to Paradise is known as “the Jamaa’ah”.

5.  “What I and my companions are upon”  “Those of you who live long after me shall witness great differing. So upon you is (to follow) my Sunnah, and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided Caliphs, hold tightly to it and bite onto it with your molar teeth. And be warned of newly-invented matters (in the Religion), as every newly-invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is misguidance.”

6.  When you look to all the various groups and their foundations, you only find one group today that claims pure adherence to the way of the Prophet and his noble companions.  They are Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah, the people who cling tightly to the way of the Prophet and his companions

7.  Sunnis, Salafees, Atharees, Ahlul-Hadeeth, Ahlul-Athar, or any other description, they are the only ones whose true allegiance is to the Book and the Sunnah, according to the understanding of the Companions. They are the Jamaa’ah described in the hadeeth

8.  Some people are confused by a common notion that the word “Jamaa’ah” refers to the majority of the Muslims. Based on this, a minority of the Muslims who cling the way of the Prophet and his Companions cannot be considered “the Jamaa’ah”.

9.  textual,  historical,  logical standpoints

10.  Textually, the Companions – the very core of the Jamaa’ah themselves  Remember that the Jamaa’ah is what they were upon, as mentioned in the hadeeth of the 73 sects quoted earlier.

11.  For example, ‘Abdullaah ibn Mas’ood (may Allaah be pleased with him) said, “The Jamaa’ah is what is in accordance to the truth, even if you were alone (in that).”  He used to tell his students explicitly that the majority of the people have departed from the Jamaa’ah. That was still in the time of the leadership of the rightly guided Caliphs.

12.  Also, among the Prophets were those who only had a few followers. Quranic accounts of Nooh (Noah), for example, and how most of his people rejected his message, show how the Jamaa’ah upon the truth can be a small group of people, the minority.

13.  Fithna at time of imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal ◦ the trials of the Jahmiyyah and the Mu’tazilah of the early third century who tried to force the whole ummah to adopt the innovated belief that the Quran was created. While the correct beliefs (that the Quran is the Speech of Allaah, uncreated) were held by only a small band of people around the great imaam, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, most of the Muslims were on a belief opposing the Book and the Sunnah as the companions understood them. During these trials, this small minority were the actual “Jamaa’ah” spoken of in the hadeeth.

14.  Ibn Qayyim al-Jowziyyah said ◦ The Sawaad A’tham (i.e. the Jamaa’ah) was mentioned to some of the imaams of Hadeeth, who said: Do you know who the Sawaad A’tham are? They are Muhammad ibn Aslam at-Toosee and his companions.

15.  people differed and claimed that the Sawaad A’tham, the binding proof, and the Jamaa’ah is the majority, making them the yardstick by which to judge the Sunnah, thus considering the (true) Sunnah to be innovation and good things to be evil, because of the small numbers of the minorities (of the people of the Truth) in each time and place. They would say: “Whoever contradicts (the majority), Allaah will cause him to contradict them by going to the Fire.” Such people, in their differing, do not even realize that the contradictory one (in reality) is the one who opposes the Truth, even if all of the people were upon it (that which opposes the Truth), except for one of them. In such a case, they (the majority) are the opposers (not the minority).

16.  how could the majority of the Muslims be the “Jamaa’ah” when the Prophet identified the saved sect, “the Jamaa’ah”, as a minority in the very hadeeth that people continue to quote without understanding its meaning.

17.  The hadeeth clearly states that the Muslims will split into 73 sects, and all of them will be in the Hellfire except one – “the Jamaa’ah”. So, the saved sect, the Jamaa’ah, is one group out of 73 groups, according to the Messenger of Allah

19.  the Prophetic solution to the problem of disunity is not to simply follow what the majority of the Muslims are upon, or to focus on the name or label of a group, while ignoring the reality of what they are upon.

20.  The only way to be saved from the Hellfire in the face of the widespread splitting and differing of the Muslims today is by standing with the Jamaa’ah who cling devoutly to the Book and the Sunnah as understood by the Companions.