85 – Muhammad ibn Qudāmah narrated to me, from al-Naḍr ibn Yazīd, from Muhammad ibn Fuḍayl, from ʿUbayd Allāh, who said:
“Whenever a judge among the Children of Israel died, they would place him in a vault for forty years. If any part of his body changed, they knew he had been unjust in his judgments. One of their judges passed away and was laid in such a vault, where a caretaker watched over him. When the broom so much as brushed the tip of the judge’s ear, it burst forth with pus. This distressed the Children of Israel, so Allah revealed to a prophet among them:
‘My servant was not afflicted with any illness, but on one occasion he listened with one ear to one litigant longer than he listened to the other. For that reason I have done this to him.’”