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1597. Ibn Al-Munkadir heard Umaimah bint Ruqaiqah saying: "I pledged to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ along with some women. He said to us: 'In as much as you are able and capable.' I said: 'Allāh and His Messenger are more merciful to us than we are to ourselves,' then I said: 'O Messenger of Allāh take the pledge from us.'" - Sufyān (one of the narrators) said: meaning: 'shake (hands) on it with us' - "so the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'My statement to one hundred women is like my statement to one.'" (Saḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Āishah, from 'Abdullāh bin 'Umar, and Asmā' bint Yazīd.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ, we do not know of it except as a narration of Muḥammad
bin Al-Munkadir.
Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Mālik bin Anas, and others reported this Hadīth from Muḥammad bin Al-Munkadir similarly. [He said: I asked Muḥammad about this Hadīth and he said: "I am not aware of a Hadīth other than this for Umaymah bint Ruqaiqah." There is another woman named Umaymah who narrated from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ].
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The Prophet ﷺ used to hold the hand of men while taking the pledge from them, but from women, he always took a verbal pledge and never held their hand that is why he said that the words he uttered once will do for one woman or one hundred women at a time.
