in Medina, and while I was sitting in a study circle that included a number of Quraysh, a man approached whose clothes were coarse, whose body was coarse, and whose face was coarse.

He stood over them and declared, “Give the hoarders the glad tidings of stones that will be heated in the Fire of Hell. One of those stones will be set upon a man’s breast-nipple until it exits through the flesh of his shoulder, then it will be placed upon his shoulder until it comes out through his nipple—bouncing back and forth inside him.”

The narrator said: The people lowered their heads; I did not see a single one of them reply to him.

He turned away, and I followed him until he sat by a pillar. I said, “It seems those men disliked what you said to them.”

He replied, “Those people understand nothing. My intimate friend Abū al-Qāsim ﷺ once called me and said, ‘O Abū Dharr.’ I answered him, and he said, ‘Do you see (Mount) Uhud?’ I looked—shielding my eyes from the sun, for I thought he was about to send me on an errand—and said, ‘I see it.’ He then said, ‘It would not please me to possess gold equal to that mountain, spend it all, and keep back only three dinars—yet these people keep amassing the world and understand nothing!’

I said, ‘Why do you hold back from your Quraysh brothers—why do you neither visit them nor take anything from them?’

He said, ‘By your Lord, I will ask them for nothing of this world, nor will I consult them about religion, until I meet Allah and His Messenger.’ (1)

Al-Aswad ibn Shaybān narrated from Yazīd ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from his brother Muṭarrif, from Abū Dharr… and he mentioned part of the report. (2)