Showing off, Hypocrisy, Self-Admiration, and Conceit — Hadith 6

6. Al-Naḍr narrated from Durust, from one of our companions, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said, “Verily Allah sent two angels to the people of a city in order to overturn it upon its inhabitants. When they arrived at the city, they found a man supplicating to Allah and beseeching Him. So one of them told the other, ‘Do you not see this supplicant? ’ He replied, ‘I see him, but I will proceed to do as my Lord has commanded me. ’ ‘I, on the other hand, will not do anything before returning to my Lord [and asking about the man], ’ said the first angel. So he returned to Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, and said, ‘My Lord, I went to the city and found Your servant so-and-so supplicating to You and beseeching You. ’ He said, ‘Do as I have commanded you, for indeed that man’s face has never changed out of anger for My sake, ever. ’”