It is narrated from Hakim bin Mu'awiyah bin Haydah, from his father, that he said to his brother Malik bin Haydah: Take us to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for he knows you and does not know me; he (peace and blessings be upon him) has detained some of my neighbours (for some reason). So the two of them came to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and Malik bin Haydah said: O Messenger of Allah, I have accepted Islam and my neighbours have also become Muslims, so release them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) gave no answer. He said it again, and still received no answer. He stood up angrily and said: If you do this, people will say that you call to one thing and yourself do the opposite. (Mu'awiyah says:) I began to rebuke him and stop him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is he saying?" The people told him that he was saying such-and-such. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If I have done that, its burden will be upon me; nothing of it will fall upon them. Release his neighbours to him."