"O ʿĀʾishah, beware of obscenity, beware of obscenity, for if obscenity were a man, it would be an evil man." It was narrated by al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (259) from ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-Ward who said: I heard Ibn Abī Mulaykah say: ʿĀʾishah said: and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. And he said: "ʿAbd al-Jabbār, al-Bukhārī said: he contradicts in some of his ḥadīth," and this has been narrated with a different isnād better than this and with different wording in the meaning of obscenity." I said: And al-Bukhārī's statement is a mild criticism that does not suffice, in my view, to reject this ḥadīth of ʿAbd al-Jabbār, for he was deemed reliable by Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Dāwūd, and others, and Ibn ʿAdī said: "There is no harm in him, his ḥadīth is written," and al-Sulamī reported from al-Dāraquṭnī: "Mild." I said: So someone like him does not lower his ḥadīth from the rank of ḥasan, and the rest of the men in the isnād are trustworthy, so the ḥadīth, in my view, is firmly ḥasan at the very least.