Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37560 — The words of Ibn al-Zubayr

It is narrated from Wahb bin Kaysan that he said: When allegiance was given to Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him), a man from Iraq wrote to him: "Peace be upon you. I praise before you Allah, besides whom there is no god. To proceed: Those who obey Allah and the people of goodness have a sign by which they are recognised, and these things are recognised in them: enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and acting in obedience to Allah. And know that the likeness of the leader is that of a market: whatever is in it is what will come to him. If the leader is righteous, the righteous will come to him with their righteousness, and if the leader is wicked, the wicked will come to him with their wickedness."