This narration is authentic and is found in Sahih Muslim (1).

So reflect on this all-embracing statement—his words, “Religion is sincere counsel.” Whoever fails to offer sincere counsel for Allah, for the leaders, and for the common people is deficient in religion.

Yet if someone were to call you—O you of deficient religion—you would become angry. Tell me, then: when have you ever given them sincere counsel? Never, by Allah! If only you would keep quiet and not speak, or at least stop beautifying falsehood for your ruler, emboldening him to commit injustice and deceiving him. Because of that you have fallen from his esteem and from the esteem of the believers. By Allah, tell me: when will a person ever prosper who delights in what actually harms him?

When will one prosper who never watches over his Master?

When will one prosper whose departure is imminent, whose generation has passed, and whose deeds and words are both foul?

Whatever Allah wills comes to pass. We can scarcely hope for the reform of the people of our age, yet we will not abandon supplication. Perhaps Allah will show kindness and set us aright. Amin.

136 – Luwayn, Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān * (D, S)
The ḥadith master, reliable, an imam, Shaykh of the frontier: Abū Ja‘far Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Ḥabīb al-Asadī, al-Baghdadi, who settled in al-Maṣṣīṣa.

He heard from: Mālik ibn Anas, Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, Hudayj ibn Mu‘āwiyah, Ḥammād ibn Zayd, Zuhayr ibn Mu‘āwiyah, Abū ʿAwānah al-Waḍḍāḥ, Ismāʿīl ibn Zakarīyā, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād, Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Abū ʿAqīl Yaḥyā ibn al-Mutawakkil, ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, Sinān ibn Hārūn, Ḥibbān ibn ʿAlī, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ḍāll, and Khālid ibn ʿAbd—