Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4621 — hadith 4621-4626

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that I came to visit the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and saw that revelation was descending upon him (peace and blessings be upon him). Then, when the intensity and weight of the revelation had passed, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "Hand me my cloak." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) went out and entered the mosque. There were some people present there, and apart from them there was no one else in the mosque. He (peace and blessings be upon him) sat down in a corner among those people, until, when the one giving the admonition had completed his talk, he (peace and blessings be upon him) recited Surah al-Sajdah: "The revelation of the Book, about which there is no doubt, is from the Lord of the worlds" [Surah al-Sajdah: 2]. Then the people could find no room in the mosque (because of the crowd and how moved they were). Then Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) sent a message to her family: "Come into the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for I have seen in him (peace and blessings be upon him) a state and a matter that I had never seen before." The narrator states that then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his blessed head (after a long prostration), and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! You have made the prostration very long." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I prostrated before my Lord to give thanks for the blessing He has granted me concerning my Ummah: that seventy thousand of them will enter Paradise (without reckoning)." At this Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! Your Ummah is far more numerous than that, and purer, so ask for still more for them," until he said this two or three times. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! May my father be sacrificed for you, your Ummah has worn you out (that is, you have already striven and supplicated a great deal for them)."
Imam Abu Bakr bin Abi Shaybah recorded this hadith in al-Musannaf; its chain contains a narrator named Abdullah bin Atik, whom the hadith scholars have criticised; however, the basic point of seventy thousand people entering Paradise without reckoning is established by the reliable narrations of the two Sahihs.