Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

It is narrated from Hazrat Ahnaf bin Qais that he said: I was sitting in the Prophet’s Mosque when a man came from the front, and whichever gathering he approached, that gathering dispersed. Until that man came to the gathering in which I was sitting. The rest of the people fled, but I remained seated. I asked, “Who are you?” He replied, “I am Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him), a companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).” I asked, “Why do people run away from you?” He said, “I forbid them from hoarding treasures.” I asked, “(Is it that) our properties have become so elevated that you fear for us?” He said, “Today this is not the case, but soon it will be that your religion will be at stake, so leave them and beware of them.”