The hadith cited in the heading is corroborated by the hadith of ‘Amr ibn Shu‘ayb, from his father, from his grandfather: “A woman came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I vowed to beat the tambourine in your presence.’ He said, ‘Fulfil your vow.’”
Note: Following the hadith of Buraydah in Mawarid al-Zam’an (493–494/2015), there appears an addition:
“The full moon has risen over us
from the mountain passes of al-Wada‘;
gratitude is due from us
whenever a caller calls to Allah.”
Its editor, Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abd al-Razzaq Hamzah—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—mentioned in a footnote that this addition came from the margin and was written in a hand different from that of the original manuscript. How I wished that the Shaykh had not printed it at the end of the hadith, but had left it where he found it—in the margin—and merely drawn attention to it in the annotation, lest someone without knowledge be misled by it. For it is a false addition: it does not occur in any of the sources mentioned above, including al-Ihsan, which is Sahih Ibn Hibban arranged according to the chapters of jurisprudence. Indeed, it has no basis in any other hadith either, despite its widespread fame among many common people and among members of the learned class who resemble them: namely, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was greeted with these words by women and children when he entered Medina during his migration from Mecca. This is not authentically established, as I explained in al-Da‘ifah (2/63/598) and pointed out in my refutation of al-Muntasir al-Kattani (p. 48), relying in this on al-Hafiz al-‘Iraqi and the eminent scholar Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah.
Some may imagine that everything narrated in books of history and biography has thereby become an inseparable part of Islamic history, such that it is impermissible to deny any part of it. This is glaring ignorance and a flagrant repudiation of the splendid Islamic history, which is distinguished from the histories of other nations in that it alone