Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim 219
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي حَازِمٍ - عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لَيَدْخُلَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا أَوْ سَبْعُمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ - لاَ يَدْرِي أَبُو حَازِمٍ أَيَّهُمَا قَالَ - مُتَمَاسِكُونَ آخِذٌ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا لاَ يَدْخُلُ أَوَّلُهُمْ حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ آخِرُهُمْ وُجُوهُهُمْ عَلَى صُورَةِ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ " .
Qutayba ibn Sa‘id narrated to us: ‘Abd al-‘Aziz—meaning Ibn Abi Hazim—narrated to us, from Abu Hazim, from Sahl ibn Sa‘d, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Seventy thousand—or seven hundred thousand—from my community will surely enter Paradise.” Abu Hazim did not know which number he said. “They will be holding fast to one another, with some grasping others. The first of them will not enter until the last of them enters, and their faces will be like the moon on a full-moon night.”
Translation notes
The transmitter explicitly says he cannot recall whether the number was seventy thousand or seven hundred thousand.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " لَيَدْخُلَنَّ الْجَنَّةَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا أَوْ سَبْعُمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ - لاَ يَدْرِي أَبُو حَازِمٍ أَيَّهُمَا قَالَ - مُتَمَاسِكُونَ آخِذٌ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا لاَ يَدْخُلُ أَوَّلُهُمْ حَتَّى يَدْخُلَ آخِرُهُمْ وُجُوهُهُمْ عَلَى صُورَةِ الْقَمَرِ لَيْلَةَ الْبَدْرِ " .
Abu Hazim explicitly does not recall whether the report said seventy thousand or seven hundred thousand.
Should both transmitted number possibilities remain in the final text, or should an editor resolve the figure from another witness?