1070 – ʿAbd Allah related to us; my father related to us; Abū al-Mundhir Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar related to us; al-Barāʾ ibn Sulaymān said: I heard Nāfiʿ, the freedman of Ibn ʿUmar, say: Ibn ʿUmar never recited these two verses from the end of Sūrah al-Baqarah—“Whether you reveal what is within yourselves or hide it, Allah will call you to account for it…” (2:284) to the end of the passage—without weeping, after which he would say, “This is indeed an especially exacting reckoning.”