Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "You should listen to and obey, your Imâm (Muslim ruler) even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin. [9:256-O.B]

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "You people will be keen to have the authority of ruling which will be a thing of regret for you on the Day of Resurrection. What an excellent wet nurse it is, yet what a bad weaning one it is! [1] [9:262-O.B]

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "Any man whom Allâh has given the authority of ruling some people and he does not look after them in an honest manner, will never have even the smell of Paradise." [9:264-O.B]

Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If any ruler having the authority to rule Muslim subjects dies while he is deceiving them, Allâh will forbid Paradise for him. [9:265-0.B]

Jundab said that he heard Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "Whoever does a good deed in order to show off, Allâh will expose his intentions on the Day of Resurrection (before the people), and whoever puts the people into difficulties, Allâh will put him into difficulties on the Day of Resurrection." The people said (to Jundab), "Advise us. He said, "The first thing of the human body to putrefy is the abdomen, so he who can eat nothing but good food (and earned lawfully) should do so, and he who does as much as he can that nothing intervene between him and Paradise by not shedding even a handful of blood, (i.e., murdering) should do so." " [9:266-O.B]