Kathir al-Ramli, from Shamssiyyah bint Nabhan, from her freedman Muslim ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, conveying the same report). He then said: Ibn Ḥibbān remarked, “I do not think her ḥadith has been accurately preserved.”

(3) From Muhammad ibn Isḥaq, from Ibn Ḍumrah ibn Saʿīd, from his grandmother, from a woman of their household who had prayed toward both qiblahs with the Prophet ﷺ. She said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in to me and said, ‘Apply henna; one of you leaves off henna until her hand looks like a man’s hand.’” She continued, “I never abandoned henna until I met Allah, and even when she was eighty years old she would still dye her hands.”

Aḥmad transmitted it, saying: “Yazīd ibn Hārūn told us; Muhammad ibn Isḥaq narrated to us” with this chain. Al-Haythamī commented: “Aḥmad related it, and it contains narrators I do not know, and Ibn Isḥaq practised tadlīs.”

I say: Ibn Ḍumrah ibn Saʿīd is mentioned in al-Taʿjīl, where Ibn Ḥajar notes: “This is how it appears in one copy, whereas the reliable manuscripts read: ‘Muhammad ibn Isḥaq from Ḍumrah ibn Saʿīd’—without the word ibn—and that is the correct version.”

Accordingly, the only unnamed narrator in the chain is the grandmother of Ḍumrah ibn Saʿīd; as for Ḍumrah ibn Saʿīd himself, he is trustworthy and is among the narrators of Muslim.

(4) From al-Sawdāʾ, who said: “I came to the Prophet ﷺ to pledge allegiance, and he said, ‘Go and apply henna, then return so that I may accept your pledge.’” Al-Haythamī said: