Masruq said, I entered upon Ayesha, and Hassan bin Thabit was with her, reciting poetry to her, courting her with verses of his. He said:"A chaste, prudent woman who is never suspected of any wrongdoing, and who rises hungry, never feeding on the flesh of the heedless."Ayesha said to him, "But you are not like that."Masruq said, I asked her, "Why do you allow him to enter upon you, when Allah has said, 'And the one among them who took upon himself the greater share of it shall have a grievous punishment' [Nur 24:11]?"She replied, "What punishment is more severe than blindness? He used to defend the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and answer those who satirized him."
دخلت على عائشة، وعندها حسان بن ثابت ينشدها شعرا، يشبب بأبيات له، فقال: حصان رزان ما تزن بريبة وتصبح غرثى من لحوم الغوافل فقالت له عائشة: لكنك لست كذلك. قال مسروق: فقلت لها: لم تأذنين له يدخل عليك، وقد قال الله: {والذي تولى كبره منهم له عذاب عظيم}، فقالت: فأي عذاب أشد من العمى؟ إنه كان ينافح أو يهاجي عن رسول الله ﷺ.
Bukhari narrated it in the tafsir (4755), and Muslim in the virtues of the companions (2488), both of them through Sulayman Amash, from Abu Duha, from Masruq, who said, then he related it. The wording given is that of Muslim, while Bukhari's wording is abridged.