حَدَّثَنِي بِشْرُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا وَائِلٍ قَالَ قِيلَ لِأُسَامَةَ أَلَا تُکَلِّمُ هَذَا قَالَ قَدْ کَلَّمْتُهُ مَا دُونَ أَنْ أَفْتَحَ بَابًا أَکُونُ أَوَّلَ مَنْ يَفْتَحُهُ وَمَا أَنَا بِالَّذِي أَقُولُ لِرَجُلٍ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَکُونَ أَمِيرًا عَلَی رَجُلَيْنِ أَنْتَ خَيْرٌ بَعْدَ مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ يُجَائُ بِرَجُلٍ فَيُطْرَحُ فِي النَّارِ فَيَطْحَنُ فِيهَا کَطَحْنِ الْحِمَارِ بِرَحَاهُ فَيُطِيفُ بِهِ أَهْلُ النَّارِ فَيَقُولُونَ أَيْ فُلَانُ أَلَسْتَ کُنْتَ تَأْمُرُ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَی عَنْ الْمُنْکَرِ فَيَقُولُ إِنِّي کُنْتُ آمُرُ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَلَا أَفْعَلُهُ وَأَنْهَی عَنْ الْمُنْکَرِ وَأَفْعَلُهُ
صحیح بخاری · Hadith 7098
Narrated Abu Wail: Someone said to Usama, "Will you not talk to this (Uthman)?" Usama said, "I talked to him (secretly) without being the first man to open an evil door. I will never tell a ruler who rules over two men or more that he is good after I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'A man will be brought and put in Hell (Fire) and he will circumambulate (go around and round) in Hell (Fire) like a donkey of a (flour) grinding mill, and all the people of Hell (Fire) will gather around him and will say to him, O so-and-so! Didn't you use to order others for good and forbid them from evil?' That man will say, 'I used to order others to do good but I myself never used to do it, and I used to forbid others from evil while I myself used to do evil.' "
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020