Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32671 — Reports on talk about rulers

Isra'il said: A man said to Sayyiduna Uthman bin Abi al-As (may Allah be pleased with him): "You have taken both this world and the Hereafter." He asked: "How?" He said: "You have wealth from which you give charity and uphold the ties of kinship, while we have no wealth." He said: "A single dirham which one of you takes and spends rightly is better than ten thousand dirhams which one of us takes out of abundance and does not even feel."