Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 674

Abu Burdah, son of Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him), narrates: I noted down some things on the authority of my father. He said: "Had it not contained verses of the Book of Allah, I would have burned it." Then he called for a tub or a large vessel and washed that writing away. Then he said: "Whatever you hear from me, preserve it in your memory, but do not note down anything from me, for I too did not note down any writing from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). (If you note things down from me,) you are close to (that is, there is the possibility that you will be) destroying your father."
Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and al-Bazzar recorded something similar, except that he recorded these words: "Memorise just as we memorised (things) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." The narrators of this report are the narrators of the Sahih.