وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «أَوْحَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنْ اقْلِبْ مَدِينَةَ كَذَا وَكَذَا بِأَهْلِهَا، فَقَالَ: يَا رَبِّ! إِنَّ فِيهِمْ عَبْدَكَ فُلَانًا لَمْ يَعْصِكَ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ. قَالَ: اقْلِبْهَا عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَيْهِمْ، فَإِنَّ وَجْهَهُ لَمْ يَتَمَعَّرْ فِي سَاعَةٍ قَطُّ». (Reported by al-Bayhaqi in Shuʿab al-Īmān)
Translation: Jabir reports that Allah commanded Jibril to overturn a certain town with its people. Jibril said that among them was a servant who had not disobeyed Allah even for the blink of an eye. The reply commanded that the town be overturned upon him and the others, explaining that his face had never shown displeasure in response to wrongdoing.
The warning concerns moral indifference: private devotion should not lead to unconcern when others are wronged. This narration gives no person the authority to impose divine punishment on a community or make definitive judgments about a whole population.