Volume 6, Book 60, Number 418:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
I witnessed the ‘Id-al-Fitr prayer with Allah’s Apostle , Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and ‘Uthman; and all of
them offered it before delivering the sermon… and then delivered the sermon. Once the Prophet
(after completing the prayer and the sermon) came down, as if I am now looking at him waving at
the men with his hand to sit down, and walked through them till he, along with Bilal, reached (the
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rows of) the women. Then he recited: ‘O Prophet! When believing women come to you to take the
oath of allegiance that they will not worship anything other than Allah, will not steal, will not com –
mit illegal sexual intercourse, will not kill their children, and will not utter slander, intentionally
forging falsehood (by making illegal children belonging to their husbands)’….(60.12) Having fin –
ished, he said, ‘Do you agree to that?” One lady, other than whom none replied the Prophet said, “Yes,
O Allah’s Apostle!” (The, sub-narrator, Al-Hasan did not know who the lady was.) Then the Prophet
said to them: “Will you give alms?” Thereupon Bilal spread out his garment and the women started
throwing big