English translation
4755. Narrated Masrūq: ‘Āishah رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا said that Ḥassān bin Thābit came and asked permission to visit her. I said, “How do you permit such a person?” She said, “Hasn’t he received a severe torment (penalty)?” (Sufyān, the subnarrator, said: She meant the loss of his sight.) Thereupon Ḥassān 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.”