117 – Hamzah narrated to me; he said: ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Ibn al-Mubarak informed us, from Salamah ibn Nubayt, who said: “I once said to my father—who had been a Companion—‘Why don’t you go and see this ruler?’ He replied, ‘I fear that I might find myself at a gathering that would cast me into the Fire.’”