Volume 7, Book 63, Number 211:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) When believing women came to the Prophet as emigrants, he used to test
them in accordance with the order of Allah. ‘O you who believe! When believing women come to
you as emigrants, examine them . . .’ (60.10) So if anyone of those believing women accepted the
above mentioned conditions, she accepted the conditions of faith. When they agreed on those condi –
tions and confessed that with their tongues, Allah’s Apostle would say to them, “Go, I have accepted
your oath of allegiance (for Islam). By Allah, and hand of Allah’s Apostle never touched the hand of
any woman, but he only used to take their pledge of allegiance orally. By Allah, Allah’s Apostle did
not take the pledge of allegiance of the women except in accordance with what Allah had ordered
him. When he accepted their pledge of allegiance he would say to them, “I have accepted your oath
of allegiance.”