Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Abu Al-Ashhab narrates that Hazrat Muzahim Dhabbi related to Hasan Basri that Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A man was waiting for his camels to come to his pond to drink, when a thirsty rider came to him calmly and said: "May I come to the water?" He replied: "No." So the man went away. He tied his mount, and when his mount saw the water, it approached the pond and entered it. Then the owner of the pond got up, took his sword, and killed that man. The narrator says: So that man went out to seek a fatwa, and he asked some of the companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)—I will not mention their names—and all of them disappointed him, until he came to one companion. That companion said to the man: "Do you have the ability to give everything on this earth as ransom, or to build a ladder to the sky?" He said: "No." Then the man had gone a little distance when he was called back and asked: "Do you have parents?" He said: "My mother is alive." That companion said to him: "Go, serve her and obey her. If the other person enters Hell, Allah will distance the one who distances him."