Narrated Masruq: We went to `Aisha while Hassan bin Thabit was with her reciting poetry to her from some of his poetic verses, saying A chaste wise lady about whom nobody can have suspicion. She gets up with an empty stomach because she never eats the flesh of indiscreet (ladies). `Aisha said to him, But you are not like that. I said to her, Why do you grant him admittance, though Allah said:-- and as for him among them, who had the greater share therein, his will be a severe torment. (24.11) On that, `Aisha said, And what punishment is more than blinding? She, added, Hassan used to defend or say poetry on behalf of Allah's Apostle (against the infidels).