Editing Sunni Islam (section)

===As the "saved sect"===
A well-known [[hadith]], which is to be interpreted as {{lang|la|[[vaticinium ex eventu]]}}, says that the Muslim [[Umma]] will split into 73 sects, only one of which will be saved.<ref>Juynboll: "An Excursus on ahl as-sunnah". 1998, p. 323f.</ref> The Sunnis have the idea that they are this "saved sect" ("firqa nā niya"). For example, [[Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi]] (d. 1037) explains at the beginning of his [[Heresiology|heresiographical]] work ''al-Farq baina l-firaq'' ("The difference between the sects") that there are 20 [[Rafida|Rafiditic]], 20 [[Kharijites|Kharijite]], 20 [[Qadariyah|Qadaritic]], 3 [[Murji'ah|Murjiite]], 3 Nadjāritic, 3 [[Karramiyya|karramitic]] and furthermore Bakriyya, Dirariyyya and [[Jahm bin Safwan|Jahmīya]]. These are the 72 erring sects. The 73rd sect that is the "saved sect" are the Sunnis (''ahl as-sunna wa-l-jamaʿa''). According to al-Baghdadi, they are composed of two groups, namely the followers of the [[Ra'y]] and the followers of the hadith. They agreed on the fundamentals of religion (''uṣūl ad-dīn''). There were only differences in the derivations (''furūʿ'') from the norms regarding the question of what [[Halal|permitted]] and what [[Haram|forbidden]] is. These differences are not so great that they considered each other to have strayed from the right path.<ref>al-Baġdādī: ''Al-Farq baina l-firaq.'' p. 38f. English translation: Chambers Seelye p. 38 (the term ''ahl as-sunna wa-l-ǧamāʿa'' is here translated as "the orthodoxy").</ref>