Narrated Masruq: `Aisha said that Hassan bin Thabit came and asked permission to visit her. I said, How do you permit such a person? She said, Hasn't he received a severely penalty? (Sufyan, the subnarrator, said: She meant the loss of his sight.) Thereupon Hassan said the following poetic verse: A chaste pious woman who arouses no suspicion. She never talks about chaste heedless women behind their backs.' On that she said, But you are not so.