The Prophet ﷺ arrested some men from my tribe on a charge and detained them. A man from my tribe came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was delivering a sermon and said, "Muhammad, why are you detaining my neighbors?"The Prophet ﷺ remained silent.The man said, "People are saying that you forbid evil while practicing it in private."The Prophet ﷺ asked, "What is he saying?"I began interrupting between them with talk, fearing he would hear it and invoke against my tribe a curse from which they would never prosper afterward. But the Prophet ﷺ kept pressing him until he understood what was said.He said, "Have they really said this, or is it just one of them saying it? By Allah, if I had done such a thing, the burden would be upon me, not upon them. Release his neighbors to him."
أخذ النبي ﷺ ناسا من قومي في تهمة، فحبسهم، فجاء رجل من قومي إلى النبي ﷺ وهو يخطب فقال: يا محمد، علام تحبس جيرتي؟ فصمت النبي ﷺ فقال: إن ناسا ليقولون: إنك تنهى عن الشر وتستخلي به، فقال النبي ﷺ: ما يقول؟ قال: فجعلت أعرض بينهما بالكلام مخافة أن يسمعها، فيدعو على قومي دعوة لا يفلحون بعدها أبدا. فلم يزل النبي ﷺ به حتى فهمها فقال: قد قالوها- أو قائلها منهم؟ والله لو فعلت لكان علي وما كان عليهم، خلوا له عن جيرانه.
Ahmad narrated it (20019) from Abdul-Razzaq, and it is in his Musannaf (18891), from Maamar, from Bahz bin Hakeem with his chain. Abu Dawud (3630), Tirmidhi (1417), Nasai (4876), and Hakim (4/102) all abridged it, all of them from the hadith of Maamar, from Bahz with his chain, with the wording that the Prophet ﷺ detained a man on suspicion, then released him.Tirmidhi said, "A hasan hadith."I say, it is as he said, for Bahz bin Hakeem bin Muawiya Qushayri is a disputed narrator, though his hadith is hasan.