On the authority of ʿĀʾishah: that Hind bint ʿUtbah said: "O Prophet of Allah, pledge allegiance to me." He said: "I will not pledge allegiance to you until you change your hands, for they look like the paws of a wild beast." (1)

4166 — Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣūrī narrated to us, Khālid ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, Muṭīʿ ibn Maymūn narrated to us, from Ṣafiyyah bint ʿIṣmah, from ʿĀʾishah who said: A woman gestured from behind a curtain with a book in her hand to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, drew back his hand and said: "I do not know whether it is the hand of a man or the hand of a woman." She said: "Rather, a woman." He said: "If you were a woman, you would have changed your nails" — meaning with henna. (2)

Chapter 4: On the joining of hair

4167 — ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us, from Mālik, from Ibn Shihāb, from Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, that he heard Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān in the year of the Pilgrimage, while he was on the pulpit, take hold of a lock of hair that was in the hand of one of his guards, saying: "O people of Medina, where are your scholars?"

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(1) Its chain of transmission is weak due to the unknown status of Ghubṭah and her paternal aunt and grandmother. It was also transmitted by Abū Yaʿlā (4754), al-Bayhaqī 7/86, Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" 70/183, and al-Mizzī in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" in the biography of Ghubṭah bint ʿAmr 35/245, via the route of Ghubṭah bint ʿAmr, with this chain.

(2) Its chain of transmission is weak due to the weakness of Muṭīʿ ibn Maymūn al-ʿAnbarī, and the unknown status of Ṣafiyyah bint ʿIṣmah. Khālid ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: he is al-Khurāsānī. It was also transmitted by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (9311) via the route of Muṭīʿ ibn Maymūn, with it. And it is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (26258).