تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.16.4

10.16.4

I was told that the singing women who live there perform the tarāwīḥ prayers in the month of Ramaḍān in those mosques together, with imāms leading them, and their number is great; and so too the singing men. I saw the musicians at the wedding of the amīr Sayf al-Dīn Ghadā ibn Muhannā: each of them had a prayer mat under his knee, and when he heard the call to prayer he rose, performed his ablutions and prayed.