Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37418 — The words of Abu Dharr

It is narrated from al-Ahnaf bin Qays that he said: I was sitting in the Prophet's Mosque when a man came forward, and whenever any circle saw him, that circle would run away. Eventually he came to the circle in which I was sitting. The others fled and I stayed sitting. I said: Who are you? He said: I am Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him), Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I said: Why do people run away from you? He said: I forbid them from hoarding treasures. I said: Have our stipends grown so very high that you fear for us because of them? He said: Today that is not the case, but soon it will be so that they are the price of your religion, so leave those people and those stipends alone.