Volume 9, Book 88, Number 218:
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.’ ”
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