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[6391] 155 - (2488) It was narrated that Masrûq said: "I entered upon 'Aishah and Hassân bin Thâbit was with her, reciting poetry to her. He said: 'She is chaste and prudent, she is beyond any suspicion; She rises hungry in the morning but she does not consume the flesh of the chaste and innocent.' 'Aishah said to him: 'But you are not like that.'" Masrûq said: "I said to her: 'Why do you give him permission to enter upon you, when Allâh says: '...And as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be a great torment.'?'"[1] She said: 'What torment is greater than blindness?' She said: 'He used to defend' - or 'compose satirical verse on behalf of - the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ.'"
