The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The nations were shown to me. A prophet would pass by with a small group of followers, another prophet with one or two companions, and yet another prophet with no one at all. Then a great multitude was raised before me, and I asked, 'What is this? Is this my nation?'It was said, 'No, this is Musa and his people. But look toward the horizon.'I looked, and there was a vast multitude filling the horizon. Then I was told, 'Look here, and there, across the horizons of the sky.' I looked, and a great multitude filled the horizon.It was said, 'This is your nation, and seventy thousand of them will enter Paradise without reckoning.'"Then the Prophet ﷺ entered his house without explaining further. The people began discussing among themselves, saying, "We are the ones who believed in Allah and followed His Messenger, so we must be them. Or perhaps it is our children who were born into Islam, since we ourselves were born in the time of ignorance."Word of this reached the Prophet ﷺ, so he came out and said, "They are those who do not seek others to recite incantations over them, who do not believe in evil omens, who do not seek to be cauterized, and who place their trust in their Lord."Ukkashah bin Mihsan said, "Am I one of them, Messenger of Allah?"He replied, "Yes."Another man stood up and asked, "Am I one of them?"He answered, "Ukkashah has beaten you to it."
عمران بن حصين قال: لا رقية إلا من عين أو حمة.
قال رسول الله ﷺ: عرضت على الأمم، فجعل النبي والنبيان يمرون معهم الرهط، والنبي ليس معه أحد، حتى رفع لي سواد عظيم، قلت: ما هذا؟ أمتي هذه؟ قيل: بل هذا موسى وقومه، قيل: انظر إلى الأفق، فإذا سواد يملأ الأفق، ثم قيل لي: انظر ها هنا، وها هنا في آفاق السماء، فإذا سواد قد ملأ الأفق، قيل: هذه أمتك، ويدخل الجنة من هؤلاء سبعون ألفا بغير حساب ثم دخل ولم يبين لهم، فأفاض القوم، وقالوا: نحن الذين آمنا بالله واتبعنا رسوله، فنحن هم أو أولادنا الذين ولدوا في الإسلام، فإنا ولدنا في الجاهلية، فبلغ النبي ﷺ فخرج، فقال: هم الذين لا يسترقون، ولا يتطيرون، ولا يكتوون، وعلى ربهم يتوكلون فقال عكاشة بن محصن: أمنهم أنا يا رسول الله؟ قال: نعم فقام آخر فقال: أمنهم أنا؟ قال: سبقك بها عكاشة
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Medicine (5705), and Muslim in the Book of Faith (374:220), both through Husayn bin Abdul-Rahman, from Amir (that is, Shaybi), who narrated it. The wording given is Bukhari's. Muslim has an addition, "they do not seek ruqya," which is an anomalous addition, perhaps arising from an error on the part of the narrator, for otherwise ruqya is commendable and there is nothing objectionable in it. The Prophet ﷺ used to perform ruqya on himself, and on Hasan and Husayn, and likewise Ayesha used to perform ruqya on the Prophet ﷺ, as is established in the Sahihayn, and will be mentioned later.