Mu'jam Kabir Tabarani 15945 — We were sitting with the Prophet ﷺ

Sayyiduna al-Faltan bin Asim (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We were sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the mosque when his gaze fixed upon a man walking in the mosque, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O so-and-so!" He said: At your service, O Messenger of Allah. (The narrator said:) And whenever he spoke he would only say: "O Messenger of Allah." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "Do you bear witness that I am the Messenger of Allah?" He said: No. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you read the Torah?" He said: Yes, and the Injil too. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And the Qur'an?" He said: By the One in whose hand is my soul, if I wished I could read it too. The narrator said: Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) adjured him and asked: "Do you find me in the Torah and the Injil?" He said: I find you, your appearance and the place of your emergence just like that; and we used to hope that he (the awaited prophet) would be from among us. When you emerged, we wondered whether you might be him; then we considered, and you are not him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why is that?" He said: Because with that prophet there will be seventy thousand of his Ummah who will enter Paradise without reckoning and without punishment, whereas with you there are only a few people. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, I am he, and those of my Ummah are more than seventy thousand and another seventy thousand."