Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3464 — What happened among the Children

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "There was a man among the Children of Israel, or among the kings (of former times), who said (out of arrogance): 'I do not know of anyone today more honoured and powerful than myself.' The narrator said: Then Allah Almighty sent against him one of the very weakest of His creatures, which entered his nostril. So (from the severity of the pain) the man began to cry out: 'Strike, strike me!' So people began to strike his head with axes until they crushed his head to pieces."
Imam Ishaq bin Rahwayh recorded this narration in his Musnad.