Does the hadith "Seventy thousand shall enter Paradise without reckoning or torment; they are those who do not seek ruqyah, nor believe in omens, nor are cauterized, and upon their Lord they rely" apply to those who go to shaykhs for ruqyah, and does it include cauterization with electrical devices, and is the number seventy thousand a literal figure or a category, and is one who is treated with cauterization deprived of being among them?
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That cauterization with electricity falls under the category of cauterization with fire is the apparent understanding. As for the seventy thousand mentioned in the hadith, they are a number, not a category. Furthermore, there are hadiths that mention a multiplication of this number as a bounty from Allah, so with every thousand, there are seventy thousand, and three handfuls.
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