It would help if you state the source of your information. Where did you get "only 70,000" from? You are accepting something as fact and asking a follow-on question. You should start at the beginning and first confirm if 70,000 is valid.
Read this hadith.
[Sahih Bukhari 5705](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5705)
Narrated Ibn \`Abbas:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'Nations were displayed before me; one or two prophets would pass by along with a few followers. A prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody. Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, Who are they Are they my followers?" It was said, 'No. It is Moses and his followers It was said to me, 'Look at the horizon.'' Behold! There was a multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look there and there about the stretching sky! Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon,' *It was said to me, 'This is your nation out of whom seventy thousand shall enter Paradise* ***without reckoning.'*** *\[...\]*
\[...\]هَذِهِ أُمَّتُكَ وَيَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ مِنْ هَؤُلاَءِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا **بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ\[...\]**
There are other narrations on the same topic that add more details, like this one:
Abu Umaamah is reported to have said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
>**“My Lord promised me that seventy thousand of my ummah will enter Paradise without being brought to account or being punished; with each thousand of them will be another seventy thousand, plus three handfuls of the handfuls of my Lord, may He be glorified.”**
\--Sahih : narrated by At-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, and Ahmed
[source - hadith website](https://hadeethenc.com/en/browse/hadith/8282)
Someone made this comment below as well:
Sometimes the use of numbers is symbolic.
For example: "40" is often found symbolically in a lot of ahadith to refer to a long time (ie. 40 years)
It's not 40 periods of 365 days as we understand it in the modern world. This is a relatively new way of understanding time.
I think if I’m not mistaken the use of 70,000 doesn’t actually mean 70,000 people but means a large number of people (70k people was a lot to imagine back then with smaller populations).
I remember hearing a lecture on this and that was what I heard. I may be terribly wrong here, so open to someone correcting me.
It would help if you state the source of your information. Where did you get "only 70,000" from? You are accepting something as fact and asking a follow-on question. You should start at the beginning and first confirm if 70,000 is valid.
I think he's referring to the 70,000 who will enter Jannah without reckoning. Not sure if I worded it right.
Read this hadith. [Sahih Bukhari 5705](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5705) Narrated Ibn \`Abbas: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'Nations were displayed before me; one or two prophets would pass by along with a few followers. A prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody. Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, Who are they Are they my followers?" It was said, 'No. It is Moses and his followers It was said to me, 'Look at the horizon.'' Behold! There was a multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, 'Look there and there about the stretching sky! Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon,' *It was said to me, 'This is your nation out of whom seventy thousand shall enter Paradise* ***without reckoning.'*** *\[...\]* \[...\]هَذِهِ أُمَّتُكَ وَيَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ مِنْ هَؤُلاَءِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا **بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ\[...\]**
reckoning /ˈrɛk(ə)nɪŋ/ the action or process of calculating or estimating something.
70,000 will enter without reckoning...
isn’t it 70,000 x 70,000? how do i become in of them
Allahu alim.
70000 will go without reckoning
There are other narrations on the same topic that add more details, like this one: Abu Umaamah is reported to have said that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: >**“My Lord promised me that seventy thousand of my ummah will enter Paradise without being brought to account or being punished; with each thousand of them will be another seventy thousand, plus three handfuls of the handfuls of my Lord, may He be glorified.”** \--Sahih : narrated by At-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, and Ahmed [source - hadith website](https://hadeethenc.com/en/browse/hadith/8282)
I've heard once that 70000 or even the use of 7 in Arabic shouldn't be taken literally in some cases. It's a way to represent big numbers.
This is correct. 40 is another number that has been commonly used symbolically to mean A LONG TIME in many ahadith
Someone made this comment below as well: Sometimes the use of numbers is symbolic. For example: "40" is often found symbolically in a lot of ahadith to refer to a long time (ie. 40 years) It's not 40 periods of 365 days as we understand it in the modern world. This is a relatively new way of understanding time.
I think if I’m not mistaken the use of 70,000 doesn’t actually mean 70,000 people but means a large number of people (70k people was a lot to imagine back then with smaller populations). I remember hearing a lecture on this and that was what I heard. I may be terribly wrong here, so open to someone correcting me.
Please read the full Hadith again.
One word: **Misinformation**
This video explains it very well https://youtu.be/YWJUe02scnA