Qutaybah ibn Sa'id, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, 'Amr al-Naqid, Zuhayr ibn Harb, and Ibn Numayr narrated to us — all of them from Ibn 'Uyaynah, and the wording is that of Zuhayr — he said: Sufyan, who is Ibn 'Uyaynah, narrated to us, from Ibn al-Munkadir, who heard 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr saying: 'A'ishah narrated to me that a man asked permission to enter upon the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said: "Give him permission. What an evil brother of his tribe he is, or what an evil man of his tribe he is." When he entered upon him, he spoke gently to him. 'A'ishah said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, you said about him what you said, then you spoke gently to him?" He said: "O 'A'ishah, indeed the worst of people in rank before Allah on the Day of Resurrection is the one whom people abandon, or leave, out of fear of his obscenity."