Has the number of the Islamic Ummah, since the era of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), reached 4.9 billion people, and will the three categories mentioned in the noble Hadith enter Paradise without reckoning or torment, or will they be brought out of Hellfire after entering it?
If each of the seventy thousand has seventy thousand with them, then the total number is four billion nine hundred million, a number that is less than one-fifth of the current number of Muslims. It is probable that the number of Muslims from the era of the Companions until today has exceeded this figure by many folds. It is likely that the people of the "three handfuls" mentioned in Tirmidhi's hadith will enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment.
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