Narrated `Aisha: Hassan bin Thabit asked the permission of Allah's Apostle to lampoon the pagans (in verse). Allah's Apostle said, What about my fore-fathers (ancestry)?' Hassan said (to the Prophet) I will take you out of them as a hair is taken out of dough. Narrated Hisham bin `Urwa that his father said, I called Hassan with bad names in front of `Aisha. She said, Don't call him with bad names because he used to defend Allah's Apostle (against the pagans).