Abu Amir says that once we performed Hajj with Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him). When we reached Makkah Mukarramah, he stood up after offering the Zuhr prayer and said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The Jews and Christians were divided into seventy-two sects in their religion, while this Ummah will be divided into seventy-three sects. All of them will go to Hell except one, and that one sect will be upon the path of the group of Companions. And in my Ummah, there will also come such peoples upon whom these sects (and desires) will prevail just as a dog attacks someone, and there will not remain any vein or joint in that person in which the poison does not penetrate. By Allah! O group of Arabs! If you do not remain steadfast upon the Shariah brought by your Prophet, then others will be even less steadfast upon it."