ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; Ahmad ibn Ibrahim narrated to us; Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Ibrahim, from Abu l-Shaʿthāʾ, who said:

“It was put to Ibn ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with both of them: ‘When we go in to see our governors, we tell them one thing, but when we come out we say something else.’ He replied, ‘During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we used to regard that as sheer hypocrisy.’”