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Posted By: fuzkabir
Subject: Reference Required
Date Posted: 24 March 2018 at 1:00pm

Assalamu Alaikum.

I heard one incident from my father(died 20 years ago) during childhood. The incident is

A nation had reached with highest state of inhumanity, so Almighty Allah ordered to destroy the nation. But the angels replied "Oh Almighty, there's a man lives who is always praising you." Allah replied "then throw the city on his head because his praising does not inspired others to follow my instruction."

I need the reference, specially the name of the nation and the reference in Islamic books.

Can you help to to find the reference?

Thank you sir.

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Posted By: Dr. Aslam
Date Posted: 25 March 2018 at 10:20am

Wa alaikum Salam,
This is one of the stories from Jewish sources. Their authenticity is very weak.

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Best Regards,
Aslam Abdullah

Posted By: Dr. Aslam
Date Posted: 28 March 2018 at 11:43pm

عن عبيد بن إسحاق العطار حدثنا عمار بن سيف، عن ال�£عمش، عن �£بي سفيان، عن جابر رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: �£وحى الله إلى ملك من الملائكة �£ن اقلب مدينة كذا وكذا على �£هلها. قال: إن فيه عبدك فلانا لم يعصك طرفة عين. قال: اقلبها عليه وعليهم فإن وجهه لم يتمعر لي ساعة قط

Narrated through 'Ubaid ibn Is'hāq al-'Attār through 'Ammār ibn Saif through Al-A'mash through Abu Sufyān through Jābir that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Allah revealed to an angel among the angels to destroy so-and-so city with all of its people. He [the angel] said: "Therein is Your Servant. He never disobeyed You, not even for a blink of an eye." He [Allah] said: "Turn it over on him and them, for his face never showed signs of displeasure for My Sake."
_{— https://al-maktaba.org/book/28171/8001" rel="nofollow - Al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, Vol. 7, pp. 336, Hadith 7661}

The name of the place was also not specified in the narration in https://al-maktaba.org/book/9472/670#p3" rel="nofollow - Ihyā' 'Ulum ad-Dīn 2/310 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali" rel="nofollow - Al-Ghazāli , nor in https://al-maktaba.org/book/32078/8186#p1" rel="nofollow - Jam' al-Fawā'id 4/326/7908 by https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A" rel="nofollow - Mohammad ibn Sulaiman al-Maghribi , nor in https://al-maktaba.org/book/8360/6101" rel="nofollow - Mishkāt al-Masābīh 4/1426/5152 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishkat_al-Masabih" rel="nofollow - Abu 'Abdullah At-Tabrīzi , nor in https://al-maktaba.org/book/31708/1970" rel="nofollow - Mu'jam Ibn Al-A'rābi 3/948/2016 by https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A" rel="nofollow - Abu Sa'īd Ibn Al-A'rābi , nor in https://al-maktaba.org/book/31612/7747" rel="nofollow - Sho'ab al-Imān 11/74/7189 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Bayhaqi" rel="nofollow - Al-Bayhaqi .

All of them had the same narration chain. The hadith is graded as da'īf jiddan (very weak) by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Nasiruddin_al-Albani" rel="nofollow - Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani . (see https://sunnah.com/urn/740600" rel="nofollow - Jami' at-Tirmidhi, Vol. 5, Book 44, Hadith 3057 — "When the people see the wrongdoer, and they do not stop him from doing wrong, then it is soon that Allah shall envelop them in a punishment from Him.").

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Best Regards,
Aslam Abdullah