Al-Harith bin Suwayd said: I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) say: "There is no word which I could say to a person in authority that would ward off two lashes of the whip from me, except that I would say it."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الكبير للطبراني / باب العين / 8817