“Abu Ya‘la narrated it, and its chain contains transmitters I do not know.”

Among the supporting narrations:

(1) From Ibn ʿAbbās: A woman came to the Prophet ﷺ to pledge allegiance. She had not applied henna, so he would not accept her pledge until she did so.
Al-Bazzār recorded it. Its chain includes Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, who practised tadlīs, while the rest of the narrators are trustworthy, as al-Haythamī notes in al-Majmaʿ.

(2) From Muslim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who said:
“I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ taking the women’s pledge at al-Ṣafā in the year of the Conquest. A woman came whose hand looked like a man’s hand, and he refused to accept her pledge until she went away and coloured her hand with yellow dye.” Al-Haythamī comments:
“Al-Ṭabarānī and al-Bazzār transmitted it. Its chain contains Samaysah bint Nabḥān, whom I do not know, while the rest of its narrators are reliable.”

I say: In the original copy her name is written “Samīsah” with an undotted sīn; it is probably with the dotted shīn, as in al-Istiʿāb and al-Iṣābah, although there it appears with the sīn placed before the yāʾ—clearly a further scribal slip.

As for the ḥadith itself, al-Ḥāfiẓ said:
“It was related by Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Sakan, by al-Bukhārī as well, and by al-Ṭabarānī through the route of ʿAbbād b…"