Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32636 — Reports on talk about rulers

Sayyiduna al-Miswar bin Makhramah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saying, while one of my fingers, this one or this one, was in his wound: "O company of Quraysh, I do not fear the people for you; rather, I fear you for the people. I am leaving among you two things; as long as you hold firmly to them and act upon them, you will remain in goodness: first, justice in judgment, and second, justice in distribution. I am leaving you on a wide and gentle path like the paths of the livestock, unless a people themselves become crooked, and then they will be made crooked."