Volume 4, Book 54, Number 489:
Narrated Abu Wail:
Volume 4 – 758 / 1700
SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 4 > BOOK 54: BEGINNING OF CREATION
Somebody said to Usama, “Will you go to so-and-so (i.e. ‘Uthman) and talk to him (i.e. advise him
regarding ruling the country)?” He said, “You see that I don’t talk to him. Really I talk to (advise) him
secretly without opening a gate (of affliction), for neither do I want to be the first to open it (i.e. re –
bellion), nor will I say to a man who is my ruler that he is the best of all the people after I have heard
something from Allah s Apostle .” They said, What have you heard him saying? He said, “I have heard
him saying, “A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and thrown in the (Hell) Fire, so that
his intestines will come out, and he will go around like a donkey goes around a millstone. The people
of (Hell) Fire will gather around him and say: O so-and-so! What is wrong with you? Didn’t you use
to order us to do good deeds and forbid us to do bad deeds? He will reply: Yes, I used to order you to
do good deeds, but I did not do them myself, and I used to forbid you to do bad deeds, yet I used to do
them myself.”