“It was said to Ibn ‘Umar: ‘We enter upon our rulers and say one thing, and when we leave we say something else.’ He said: ‘At the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we used to regard that as hypocrisy.’”
قِيلَ لاِبْنِ عُمَرَ إِنَّا نَدْخُلُ عَلَى أُمَرَائِنَا فَنَقُولُ الْقَوْلَ فَإِذَا خَرَجْنَا قُلْنَا غَيْرَهُ قَالَ كُنَّا نَعُدُّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ النِّفَاقَ
“It was said to Ibn ‘Umar: ‘We enter upon our rulers and say one thing, and when we leave we say something else.’ He said: ‘At the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we used to regard that as hypocrisy.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3975)
عَنْ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ قَالَقِيلَ لِابْنِ عُمَرَ إِنَّا نَدْخُلُ عَلَى أُمَرَائِنَا فَنَقُولُ الْقَوْلَ فَإِذَا خَرَجْنَا قُلْنَا غَيْرَهُ فَقَالَ كُنَّا نَعُدُّ هَذَا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ النِّفَاقَ
[Machine] It was said to him, "When we enter upon the rulers, we say to them what we do not say to them when we leave from their presence." So he said, "We used to consider that as hypocrisy during the time of the Prophet ﷺ."
قِيلَ لَهُ إِنَّا إِذَا دَخَلْنَا عَلَى الْأُمَرَاءِ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ مَا لَا نَقُولُ لَهُمْ إِذَا خَرَجْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِمْ فَقَالَ «كُنَّا نَعُدُّ ذَلِكَ نِفَاقًا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ»