Salama bin Yazid Jafi asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "Prophet of Allah, what is your view if rulers come to power over us who demand their rights from us but withhold our rights from us? What do you command us to do?"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned away from him. Then he asked again, and he turned away from him. Then he asked a second or third time, so Ashath bin Qays pulled him back.The Prophet ﷺ said, "Listen and obey, for upon them is what they have been charged with and upon you is what you have been charged with."In another narration, Ashath bin Qays pulled him back, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said the same.
سأل سلمة بن يزيد الجعفي رسول الله ﷺ، فقال: يا نبي الله، أرأيت إن قامت علينا أمراء يسألونا حقهم، ويمنعونا حقنا، فما تأمرنا؟ فأعرض عنه، ثم سأله، فأعرض عنه، ثم سأله في الثانية أو في الثالثة، فجذبه الأشعث بن قيس، وقال: اسمعوا وأطيعوا فإنما عليهم ما حملوا وعليكم ما حملتم. وفي رواية: فجذبه الأشعث بن قيس فقال رسول الله ﷺ، فذكر مثله.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Leadership (1846) through several routes from Muhammad bin Jafar, who said, Shubah narrated to us, from Simak bin Harb, from Alqama bin Waail Hadrami, from his father, who said, and then he related it.Muslim also recorded the second narration through another route from Shubah, with the same chain.