It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty has promised me that He will admit seventy thousand individuals from my Ummah into Paradise without reckoning. Upon hearing this, Sayyiduna Yazid bin Akhnas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: By Allah! This number in your Ummah is like a reddish-white bee among common bees. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: My Lord has promised me seventy thousand, and with every thousand, He has promised an additional seventy thousand, and on top of that, there are three handfuls of Allah Almighty besides this number. He then said: O Prophet of Allah! What is the expanse of your Hawd (Pond)? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The distance from Aden to Oman, then he (peace and blessings be upon him) gestured with his hand and said: Rather, it is even more vast than that, more vast than that. It will have two channels, one of gold and the other of silver. He said: O Prophet of Allah! What will the water of your Hawd be like? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It will be whiter than milk, sweeter than honey, and more fragrant than musk. Whoever drinks from it once will never feel thirst again, and his face will never become dark. Abdullah bin Imam Ahmad says: I found this hadith written in my father's book in his own handwriting, and it was marked, from which I understood that the hadith is not correct in this form; in fact, this hadith is narrated through the chain: from Zayd, from Abu Salam, from Abu Umamah. (Abdullah Rafiq)
Hadith Takhrij«صحيح، أخرجه ابن حبان: 6457، والطبراني في الكبير : 7672، وأخرج بعضه الترمذي: 4286، وابن ماجه: 2437، (انظر مسند أحمد ترقيم الرسالة: 22156 ترقیم بيت الأفكار الدولية: 22508»
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … (1) From this it is understood that in the Hereafter, a vast and expansive reservoir (hawd) will be granted to the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. There will be two channels flowing into it from Paradise; one of them will be of silver and the other of gold. Its water will be whiter than milk, sweeter than honey, and colder than ice. Whoever drinks from it will never feel thirst again. There will be vessels for drinking this water in numbers greater than the stars in the sky. And the face of the one who drinks this water will never become darkened.
(2) It is also understood that from this Ummah, seventy thousand people will enter Paradise without reckoning, and with every thousand of them, there will be seventy thousand more people.