Volume 6, Book 60, Number 341:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
There gathered near the House (i.e. the Ka’ba) two Quraishi persons and a person from Thaqif (or
two persons from Thaqif and one from Quraish), and all of them with very fat bellies but very little
intelligence. One of them said, “Do you think that Allah hears what we say?” Another said, “He hears
us when we talk in a loud voice, but He doesn’t hear us when we talk in a low tone.” The third said,
“If He can hear when we talk in a loud tone, then He can also hear when we speak in a low tone.”
Then Allah, the Honorable, the Majestic revealed:
‘And you have not been screening against yourself lest your ears, and eyes and your skins should
testify against you….’ (41.22-23)