No. Islam didn't split into two groups at the death of the Prophet SAW. It split into two political groups when the rebels mercilessly martyred the third Rightful Caliph Hazrat Usman RAU. The religious division came much later.
No. Islam didn't split into two groups at the death of the Prophet SAW. It split into two political groups when the rebels mercilessly martyred the third Rightful Caliph Hazrat Usman RAU. The religious division came much later.
The Sunni and the Shia Islam. Shia Islam was made Persia's state religion; Sunni clerics were either killed or exiled from Persia.
The two main groups of Islam are the Shia and Sunni. They divided into these groups after Mohamed died and they could not decide on just one successor.
There are shia muslims and sunni muslims in islam.
The two groups were Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism.
The Mahayana and the Therauda
Mahayana and Theravada
The largest two Islamic groups are Shi'a and Sunni Muslims. These two groups now have quite different beliefs, but the original split was caused by the question of who was to succeed Muhammad. The Sunni's believe that Abu Bakr was his rightful successor, but the Shi'a believe that Muhammad chose his cousin Ali.
The two groups split in the most simple terms, because of fighting over their lineage to Muhummad, the Prophet.
Christianity and Islam
Many groups fought, but if the Holocaust were to be split into two groups, they would be the victims and the perpetrators.