Sunan an-Nasa'i 4179

Translation

"When I wanted to give pledge to the Messenger of Allah, I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, women helped me (in wailing for the dead) during the Jahiliyyah; shall I go and help her (in wailing) and then come to you and give you my oath of allegiance?' He said: 'Go and help her.' So I went and helped her, then I came, and gave my pledge to the Messenger of Allah."

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Other narrations of this report

al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 16991al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 7207al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 6565

Narrators

1. 1
   Nusaybah bt. Kaʿb al-Māzinīyah

   Female Companion (ṣaḥābiyyah)d. she lived until around the year 70 AH
   نُسَيْبَةُ بِنْتُ كَعْبٍ الْمَازِنِيَّةُصحابية
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Sīrīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AH
   مُحَمَّدٍثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنى
   عن
3. 3
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبَثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Manṣūr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة
   أخبرني
6. 6
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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