English translation
5705. Narrated Ibn 'Abbās رضي الله عنهما: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "Nations were displayed before me; one or two Prophets would pass by along with a few followers. A Prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody. Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, "Who are they? Are they my followers?" It was said, "No. It is Moses and his followers." It was said to me, "Look at the horizon." Behold! There was a multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look this way and that way in the vastness of the horizon! Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon,' It was said to me, 'This is your nation out of whom seventy thousand shall enter Paradise without reckoning'." Then the Prophet ﷺ entered his house without telling his Companions who they (the 70,000) were. So the people started talking about the issue and said, "It is we who have believed in Allāh and followed His Messenger; therefore those people are either ourselves or our children who are born in the Islāmic era, for we were born in the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance." When the Prophet ﷺ heard of that, he came out and said, "Those people are those who do not treat themselves with Ruqya, nor do they believe in bad or good omen (from birds etc.) nor do they get themselves branded (cauterized), but they put their trust (only) in their Lord." On that 'Ukāsha bin Miḥsan said, "Am I one of them, O Allāh's Messenger?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "Yes." Then another person got up and said, "Am I one of them?" The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Ukāsha has preceded you.'