A man lost one hundred dinars, so he announced: “Whoever finds it shall receive twenty dinars.”
The one who had found the money came forward and said, “Here is your property; now give me the amount you promised.”
The owner replied, “My money was one hundred and twenty dinars.”
They brought the case before Faḍālah, who asked the owner, “Was your money not one hundred and twenty dinars, as you claim?”
He answered, “Indeed.”
Faḍālah then said to the other, “And you found one hundred?”
He replied, “Yes.”
Faḍālah said, “Then keep it and do not hand it over to him; it is not his property until its rightful owner comes.” (1)

Faḍālah also said, “For me to know that Allah has accepted from me even the weight of a single grain would be dearer to me than the whole world and everything in it, for He, exalted is He, says: ‘Allah only accepts from those who are mindful of Him.’ (2) [al-Māʾidah: 30]”

Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Yarbūʿī reported: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ḥafṣ narrated to us from Dāwūd ibn Muhājir, from Ibn Muḥayriz, who heard Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd—and I said to him, “Advise me.” He replied:
“Traits by which Allah will benefit you: if you can know yet remain unknown, then do so; if you can listen and not speak, then do so; and if you can sit without others gathering around you, then do so.” (3)

Faḍālah is counted among the leading Qur’an reciters, though it has also been said that Ibn ʿĀmir recited to him.

Sufyān narrated from Manṣūr, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, from Nuʿaym ibn Dhī Janāb, from Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd, who said:
“Three things are crushing misfortunes: a ruler who, if you do well, shows no gratitude, and if you do wrong, offers no forgiveness; a neighbor who, when he sees a good deed, buries it, and when he sees an evil—”