مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب الآدابThe Book of Manners
(عَدَمُ النَّهْيِ عَنِ المُنْكَرِ مَعَ القُدْرَةِ عَلَيْهِ)
(Not forbidding evil despite having the ability to do so)
Hadith 5147
وَعَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ الْكِنْدِيِّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مَوْلًى لَنَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَدِّي رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَا يُعَذِّبُ الْعَامَّةَ بِعَمَلِ الْخَاصَّةِ حَتَّى يَرَوُا الْمُنْكَرَ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانِيهِمْ وَهُمْ قَادِرُونَ عَلَى أَنْ يُنْكِرُوهُ فَلَا يُنْكِرُوا فَإِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ عَذَّبَ اللَّهُ العامَّةَ والخاصَّةَ» . رَوَاهُ فِي «شرح السّنة»
Adi bin Adi Kindi narrates: Our freed slave narrated to us that he heard my grandfather saying that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Indeed, Allah does not punish all people because of the disobedience of some among them, until they see evil before them and, while having the power to stop it, do not do so. When they become like this, then Allah subjects all—both the general and the specific (the many and the few)—to punishment." Hasan, narrated in Sharh al-Sunnah.
