أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَی قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرٌ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ بَهْزَ بْنَ حَکِيمٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ مَا أَتَيْتُکَ حَتَّی حَلَفْتُ أَکْثَرَ مِنْ عَدَدِهِنَّ لِأَصَابِعِ يَدَيْهِ أَنْ لَا آتِيَکَ وَلَا آتِيَ دِينَکَ وَإِنِّي کُنْتُ امْرَأً لَا أَعْقِلُ شَيْئًا إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمَنِي اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَرَسُولُهُ وَإِنِّي أَسْأَلُکَ بِوَحْيِ اللَّهِ بِمَا بَعَثَکَ رَبُّکَ إِلَيْنَا قَالَ بِالْإِسْلَامِ قُلْتُ وَمَا آيَاتُ الْإِسْلَامِ قَالَ أَنْ تَقُولَ أَسْلَمْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَی اللَّهِ وَتَخَلَّيْتُ وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلَاةَ وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّکَاةَ
سنن نسائی · Hadith 2442
Bahz bin Hakim narrated from his father, that his grand father said: “I said: ‘Prophet of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم, I did not come to you until I had sworn more than this many times” — the number of fingers on his hands — “that I would never come to you or follow your religion. I am a man who does not know anything except that which Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, and His Messenger teach me. I ask you by the Revelation of Allah, with what has your Lord sent you to us’?’ He said: ‘With Islam.’ I said: ‘What are the signs of Islam?’ He said: ‘To say, I submit my face to Allah and give up Shirk, and to establish the ‘Salah and to pay the Zakah.” (Hasan)
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020