In a hadīth recorded by Imam Ahmad and other secondary hadīth collections, the Prophet ﷺ is recorded to have said: لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي عَلَى الدِّينِ ظَاهِرِينَ، لَعَدُوِّهِمْ ...