278 — Ahmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us: ⦗164⦘ Sallām ibn Sulaym narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq, from Gharīb al-Hamdānī, who said: I said to Ibn Umar ⦗165⦘—may Allah be pleased with them both—: “When we enter the presence of the rulers, we praise them for qualities they do not possess; then, when we leave, we pray against them.” He said: “We used to regard that as hypocrisy.”