Ayesha said, "When believing women emigrated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, they were tested by the words of Allah , 'Prophet, when believing women come to you pledging allegiance to you, that they will associate nothing with Allah, that they will not steal, and that they will not commit adultery' [Mumtahanah 60:12], to the end of the verse."Ayesha continued, "Whichever of the believing women affirmed this had thereby submitted to the test. When they affirmed it in their own words, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would say to them, 'Go, for I have accepted your pledge.' By Allah, the hand of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ never touched the hand of any woman. He would take their pledge by words alone."Ayesha said, "By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ never required anything of the women except what Allah the Exalted had commanded him, and the palm of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ never touched the palm of any woman. When he had taken their pledge, he would say to them, 'I have accepted your pledge by word.'"
قالت: كانت المؤمنات إذاهاجرن إلى رسول الله ﷺ لا يمتحن بقول الله عز وجل: {يأيها النبي إذا جاءك المؤمنت يبايعنك على أن لا يشركن بالله شيئا ولا يسرقن ولا يزنين} إلى آخر الآية. قالت عائشة: فمن أقر بهذا من المؤمنات فقد أقر بالمحنة، وكان رسول الله ﷺ إذا أقررن بذلك من قولهن، قال لهن رسول الله ﷺ: انطلقن فقد بايعتكن. ولا والله ما مست يد رسول الله ﷺ له يد امرأة قط. غير أنه يبايعهن بالكلام قالت عائشة: والله ما أخذ رسول الله ﷺ على النساء قط إلا بما أمره الله تعالى، وما مست كف رسول الله ﷺ كف امرأة قط، وكان يقول لهن إذا أخذ عليهن: قد بايعتكن كلاما.
Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4891) and Muslim in "the leadership" (1866), both of them through the route of Yunus bin Yazid, who said, Zuhri said, Urwa bin Zubayr informed me that Ayesha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, said, and then she mentioned it. The wording given is Muslim's, while Bukhari's wording is abridged.