The Sufficient (Vol 6) · Hadith 2093 (#Ḥadīth #2)
Chapter 31 | The Black Dye and Woad
عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْوَسِمَةِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِهَا لِلشَّيْخِ الْكَبِيرِ.
2. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah , about applying Woad. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful to an old man ."
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).