Is there any authentic report regarding the increase beyond seventy thousand?

Question:
Is the number seventy to be understood as a limit?

Answer:
Another narration states:

And He increased for me seventy thousand with every thousand

وزادني مع كل ألف سبعين ألفًا

as mentioned by the author, and al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir mentioned it in his commentary on the verse of the Exalted:

You are the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind

كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ

[Al Imran: 110]. It has come through various chains, including:

And He increased for me seventy thousand with every thousand

زادني مع كل ألف سبعين ألفًا

and in one wording:

with each one another seventy thousand

مع كل واحد سبعين ألفًا

Musnad Ahmad 22Da'if because a narrator's unknown (Darussalam)

and in some:

and three handfuls of my Lord, the Glorified.

وثلاث حثيات من حثيات ربي

So those who enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment are too many for anyone but Allah to count .

Source binbaz.org.sa

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