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Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:`Ali bin Abi Talib sent a piece of gold not yet taken out of its ore, in a tanned leather container to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) distributed that amongst four Persons: 'Uyaina bin Badr, Aqra bin H`Abis, Zaid Al-Khail and the fourth was either Alqama or Amir bin at-Tufail. On that, one of his companions said, "We are more deserving of this (gold) than these (persons)." When that news reached the Prophet (ﷺ) , he said, "Don't you trust me though I am the trustworthy man of the One in the Heavens, and I receive the news of Heaven (i.e. Divine Inspiration) both in the morning and in the evening?" There got up a man with sunken eyes, raised cheek bones, raised forehead, a thick beard, a shaven head and a waist sheet that was tucked up and he said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Be afraid of Allah." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Woe to you! Am I not of all the people of the earth the most entitled to fear Allah?" Then that man went away. Khalid bin Al-Walid said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Shall I chop his neck off?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "No, for he may offer prayers." Khalid said, "Numerous are those who offer prayers and say by their tongues (i.e. mouths) what is not in their hearts." Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "I have not been ordered (by Allah) to search the hearts of the people or cut open their bellies." Then the Prophet looked at him (i.e. that man) while the latter was going away and said, "From the offspring of this (man there will come out (people) who will recite the Qur'an continuously and elegantly but it will not exceed their throats. (They will neither understand it nor act upon it). They would go out of the religion (i.e. Islam) as an arrow goes through a game's body." I think he also said, "If I should be present at their time I would kill them as the nation of Thamud were killed

حدثنا قتيبة، حدثنا عبد الواحد، عن عمارة بن القعقاع بن شبرمة، حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن ابي نعم، قال سمعت ابا سعيد الخدري، يقول بعث علي بن ابي طالب رضى الله عنه الى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من اليمن بذهيبة في اديم مقروظ لم تحصل من ترابها، قال فقسمها بين اربعة نفر بين عيينة بن بدر، واقرع بن حابس وزيد الخيل، والرابع اما علقمة واما عامر بن الطفيل، فقال رجل من اصحابه كنا نحن احق بهذا من هولاء. قال فبلغ ذلك النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال " الا تامنوني وانا امين من في السماء، ياتيني خبر السماء صباحا ومساء ". قال فقام رجل غاير العينين، مشرف الوجنتين، ناشز الجبهة، كث اللحية، محلوق الراس، مشمر الازار، فقال يا رسول الله، اتق الله. قال " ويلك اولست احق اهل الارض ان يتقي الله ". قال ثم ولى الرجل، قال خالد بن الوليد يا رسول الله، الا اضرب عنقه قال " لا، لعله ان يكون يصلي ". فقال خالد وكم من مصل يقول بلسانه ما ليس في قلبه. قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " اني لم اومر ان انقب قلوب الناس، ولا اشق بطونهم " قال ثم نظر اليه وهو مقف فقال " انه يخرج من ضيضي هذا قوم يتلون كتاب الله رطبا، لا يجاوز حناجرهم، يمرقون من الدين كما يمرق السهم من الرمية ". واظنه قال " لين ادركتهم لاقتلنهم قتل ثمود