Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Maryam, Ayah 37
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But the factions differed among themselves that is to say the Christians they differed regarding Jesus was he the son of God? A god alongside Him? Or was he the third of three gods? So woe — meaning severe punishment will be meted out — to those who disbelieve those who disbelieve in the way mentioned and in other ways at the scene of an awful Day that is to say woe to them when they are present at the Day of Resurrection and witnessing its terrors.
Related Hadiths
A group would secede itself (from the Ummah) when there would be dissension among the Muslims. Out of the two groups who would be nearer the truth would kill them.
In the event of the dissension among Muslims an emerging sect will emerge ; one of the two parties that is nearer to the truth will kill it.
A person from amongst the Muslims and a person from amongst the Jews fell into dispute and reviled each other. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Al-Zuhri and Nafi' differed among themselves in four traditions. This is one of them.
There would be two groups in my Ummah, and there would emerge another group (seceding itself from both of them), and the party nearer to the truth among the two would kill them (the group of the Khawa...
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that a group (Khawarij) would emerge from the different parties (the party of Hadrat 'Ali and the party of Amir Mu'awiya), the group nearer...
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Jews were split up into seventy-one or seventy-two sects; and the Christians were split up into seventy one or seventy-two sects; and my community will be split up into seven...
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The Jews split into seventy-one sects, or seventy-two sects, and the Christians similarly, and my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects."
I came on the day of Jara`a that a person was (found) sitting. I said: They would shed their blood today. That person said: By Allah. not at all. I said: By Allah, of course, they would do it. He said...
“The Jews split into seventy-one sects and my nation will split into seventy-three sects.”
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(The sects) the disbelievers (among them differ) some saying He is Allah, some he is the son of Allah and some Allah's partner: (but woe) a river in Gehenna containing puss and blood; it is also said that this means: severe chastisement (unto the disbelievers) who became different sects regarding Jesus (from the meeting of an awful Day) from the chastisement of the Day of Judgement.