9 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ashhab al-Tamīmī related to me, from his father, who said: “In the pre-Islamic era they would stand at the Standing Place and hear a voice coming from the mountain: ‘Oppression strikes down its own people, consigns them to the abode of humiliation, and grinds their noses in the dust!’ They would then circle the mountain but see nothing, while the voice kept sounding all the same.”