We were with Usama bin Zayd when a man said to him, "What keeps you from going in to Uthman and speaking with him?"Usama replied, "Do you think that I speak to him only when you can hear me? By Allah, I have spoken to him privately, between him and me, short of opening up a matter that I would not wish to be the first to open. And I do not tell any man who is set over me as a ruler that he is the best of people, not after what I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say.He said, 'On the Day of Resurrection a man will be brought and cast into the Fire, and his bowels will spill out, and he will circle around with them the way a donkey circles a millstone. The people of the Fire will gather around him and say, So-and-so, what is wrong with you? Did you not command what is right and forbid what is wrong? And he will answer, Yes indeed. I used to command what is right and not do it myself, and forbid what is wrong and do it myself.'"
حدثنا عثمان بن أبي شيبة حدثنا جرير عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل قال كنا عند أسامة بن زيد فقال رجل ما يمنعك أن تدخل على عثمان فتكلمه فيما يصنع وساق الحديث بمثله