Is the hadith about the 73 branches sahih?
The hadith regarding "seventy-odd branches" (or sixty-odd branches) of faith (īmān), often confused in phrasing with the hadith of the seventy-three sects (firaq), is not discussed or evaluated for authenticity in this lecture series or in the text of Imam al-Harawi’s Manāzil al-Sā’irīn.
Because the corpus for this course does not address this specific hadith's grading or narration, no ruling or analysis from Dr. Hatem al-Haj on its authenticity is recorded here.