Is the hadith about the people who will enter Paradise without being called to account sound?

- “70 thousand people who will enter Paradise without being called to account, 70 thousand more people with each thousand, and three handfuls of people from the palms of our Lord” are mentioned in a hadith.
- How did the scholars understand the hadith above?
- According to what is stated in the hadith, 70 * 70 = 4 billion 900 million people + three handfuls of our Lord's hands - which is perhaps more - will enter Paradise without being called to account. In that case, it looks as if all Muslims, whether obedient or disobedient, will enter Paradise without being called to account.

Dear Brother / Sister,

- Tabarani narrated that hadith. (Tabarani, al-Awsat, 1/128/h. no: 404; al-Kabir, 22/304/h. no:771)

Haythami stated that the narrators in the chain of the narrators of the narration were reliable. (see Majmauz-Zawaid, h. no: 18709)

- First of all, we can say that expressions such as “seventy and seventy thousand” in the Arab culture can also be used figuratively to express multitude. Such a figurative expression may have been used in the hadith to give people hope.

- Secondly, the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is all the people who came to the world in about fifteen centuries. There are hundreds of thousands of people who have not heard the message of the religion of Islam - in each century. It is known that they will not be called to account - according to Ash'ari madhhab.

In addition, the number of people who die before the age of puberty, whether they are the children of Muslims or unbelievers, is hundreds of thousands in each century. They will not be called to account either.

Similarly, - in every century - there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not held responsible because they are not sane, which, according to Islam, cannot be called to account.

However, when we consider the number of the Muslims in general (in the fifteen centuries), we can see that the expression in the hadith is understandable.

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