How one can save himself from being among the 72 misguided sects and make sure that he is following the creed of the saved sect

How do I save myself from being among the 72 misguided sects and make sure that I am following the creed of the saved sect?

Imām ’Abdullāh ibn Al-Mubārak raḥimahullāh said: 

أصل اثنين وسبعين فرقة: أربعة أهواء، فمن هذه اﻷربعة الأهواء تشعبت الاثنان وسبعون فرقة؛ الـقــدريــــــة، والـمـرجـئـــة، والـشـيـعــــة، والـخــــوارج. 

“The origin of the seventy-two (misguided) sects returns back to four desires/innovations, and from these four desires/innovations, the seventy-two sects branched out;

 1️⃣ Al-Qadariyyah

 2️⃣ Al-Murji’ah

 3️⃣ Ash-Shī’ah

 4️⃣ Al-Khawārij

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 ✅ Whoever believes that all decrees are from Allāh; the good and the bad, and that Allāh ﷻ misleads whomever He wills based on His Divine wisdom and He guides whomever He wills due to His bounty and virtue; then he has saved himself from the beliefs of the Qadariyyah. 

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 ✅ Whoever believes that Ēmān consists of both speech and action, that it increases with righteousness and decreases with disobedience, then he has saved himself from the beliefs of the Murji'ah.

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 ✅ Whoever gives precedence to Abū Bakr, ’Umar, ’Uthmān, and ’Ali over the rest of the Companions, may Allāh be pleased with them all, and does not revile any of them, but only speaks highly of them and supplicates for them, then he has saved himself from the beliefs of the Shī’ah.  

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 ✅ And whoever believes that prayer is valid behind every righteous and immoral Muslim Imām, and that jihād is fought behind every Muslim caliph, and he does not believe in rebelling against them with the sword and prays for them to be righteous, then he has saved himself from the beliefs of the Khawārij. 

Such a person is known as a: 

صــــــــــــاحــــــــــــب ســــــــــــــــنــــــــــــة

📕[Sharh As-Sunnah of Al-Barbahāri].

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Similarly, it was said to Sahl ibn ’Abdillāh At-Tasturi:

متى يعلم الرجل أنه على السنة والجماعة؟

“When does a man know that he is upon the Sunnah and adhering to the Jamā’ah?!”

He said: 

إذا عرف من نفسه عشر خصال: لا يترك الجماعة، ولا يسب أصحاب النبي ﷺ، ولا يخرج على هذه الأمة بالسيف، ولا يكذب بالقدر، ولا يشك في الإيمان، ولا يماري في الدين، ولا يترك الصلاة على من يموت من أهل القبلة بالذنب، ولا يترك المسح على الخفين، ولا يترك الجماعة خلف كل وال جار أو عدل. اهـ. 

“If he finds in himself ten qualities:

● He does not abandon the Jamā’ah, 

● He does not curse the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, 

● He does not rebel against this Ummah (i.e. The Muslims) with the sword, 

● He does not belie the pre-decree, 

● He does not have doubt in Ēmān, 

● He does not dispute in the religion, 

● He does not abandon praying over anyone who dies from the people of the Qiblah (i.e. Muslim) due to sin, 

● He does not leave off wiping over the socks.

● He does not abandon [praying] congregation behind any (Muslim) ruler; wicked or just .”

 📗 [Sharḥ Uṣūl I’tiqād Ahlis Sunnah wal Jamā’ah by Imām Al-Lālakā'ē (183)]

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