Zaid bin Aqbah Fazari, may Allah have mercy on him, says that once I went to Hajjaj bin Yusuf and said to him, "May Allah reform the Amir, shall I not narrate to you the hadith which Samurah bin Jundub, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated to me from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him?" He said, "Why not?" Zaid said, "I heard him say that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'To extend one's hand in front of someone (to beg) is a wound and a brand with which a person brands his own face. Now, whoever wishes, let him leave it on his face, and whoever wishes, let him leave it. Except that a person asks from someone who is in authority, or he asks in a matter in which there is no other way out.'"