Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38212 — Sayings of Ikrimah

Muhammad bin Sirin said: We were sitting with Abu Ubaydah in his domed tent when a man came to him and sat with him on his bed. He said something privately to Abu Ubaydah (may Allah have mercy on him) that we could not understand. Abu Ubaydah said to him: Put your finger in this fire. Between us a fire was burning in a brazier. The man said, "Subhan Allah (Glory be to Allah)!" Abu Ubaydah said: You are miserly with me over one finger in the fire of this world, yet you ask me to put my entire body in the fire of Hell. The narrator said: We thought that this man had invited Abu Ubaydah to become a judge.