This hadith supports the view that the pledges were made between him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the women by extending their hands, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated earlier, rather than by shaking hands. Had handshaking taken place, the narrator would evidently have mentioned it. Thus, there is no contradiction between it, the hadith under discussion, and the hadith that follows.

530 — “He would not shake hands with women when receiving their pledges.”

Imam Aḥmad recorded it (2/213): ʿAttāb ibn Ziyād narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Usāmah ibn Zayd informed us; ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb related to me from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to...

I say: Its chain of transmission is good, based on the position established by scholars such as Aḥmad, al-Ḥumaydī, al-Bukhārī, al-Tirmidhī, and others, who accepted as evidence the hadith of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb from his father, from his grandfather. Those below him in the chain are trustworthy. ʿAbd Allāh is Ibn al-Mubārak.

531 — “Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, says: ‘The son of Adam offends Me when he says, “What a wretched time!”’ In another narration: ‘He abuses Time.’ ‘So let none of you say, “What a wretched time!” For I am Time: I alternate its night and day, and when I will, I take them both away.’”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it (3/330, 4/478), as did Muslim (7/45)—whose wording is cited here—Abū Dāwūd (5274), and Aḥmad (2/138, 272, 275), through several chains from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said it.

Al-Ḥākim also recorded it in al-Mustadrak (2/453) through this chain and with this wording, saying: “It is authentic according to their criteria, though they did not narrate it in this form.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. Both were mistaken in claiming that Muslim had omitted it, for he did record it, as you see. Al-Mundhirī was misled by this and cited it in al-Targhīb with this wording, saying (3/290): “It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd and al-Ḥākim, who said: ‘It is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.’”