Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 28140 — Those who disliked writing down

Al-Aswad bin Hilal said: A scroll containing hadith was brought to Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him). He called for water, erased it, then washed it, then ordered that it be burned, and it was burned. Then he said: "I remind by Allah any man who knows of it being with anyone to inform me of it. By Allah, if I knew that it was at Dayr Hind, I would reach it. Because of this the People of the Book before you perished, until they cast the Book of Allah behind their backs as though they did not know."