' Certainly...

' Certainly, other great personalities at the dawn of Islam like Abou Sa'id Khedri, Ibn Abbas, Abdullah- Ibn Zubayr, and Anas Ibn- Malik have also quoted this tradition of the Prophet(p.b.u.h.) which has been mentioned in the known books of the Ahl al Sunna.(1) If we place this sequential 'Hadith"(tradition)alongside another sequential 'Hadith' which says: "The Muslims will be divided into 37 sects, out of which only one will be saved, " it would become evident that the Prophet(p.b.u.h.) himself considered this sect to be the one that follows the Ahl- ul- Bayt,(a.

s.)and where he says 'He who embarks upon it will be saved, ' he means the same term/ najiyah/(saved). * * * * (1) Refer to Tabari's Al Mu'jam al Kabir, Hakim Neyshabouri in Al- Mustadrak, Ibn- Kathir in his Commentaries; Suyuti's Tarikh- ul- Khulafa; Ibn Qutayba's Uyoun- ul Akhbar; Tabari's Zakha`ir- ul &