How accurate is the statement that God abolished the punishment of collective annihilation after ordaining Jihad upon the believers in the time of Moses, and that He no longer annihilates the general populace thereafter? And how does this reconcile with the story of the companions of the town in Surat Ya-Sin, which occurred after Jesus?

The main evidence that nations are not destroyed by a general torment after the revelation of the Torah is the Almighty's saying: "And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture after We had destroyed the former generations." The Sunnah confirms this; it is narrated from Abu Sa'id that Allah did not destroy any nation with a general torment after the revelation of the Torah, except for the people of the town who were transformed into apes.

As for the story of the people of the town in Surat Yasin, there is no Quranic text that specifies its time. Many of the early Muslims believed it was Antioch and that its messengers were from Christ. However, this faces a problem with the rule that nations are not destroyed by a general torment after the Torah. This means that the town mentioned in the Qur'an may not be Antioch. In summary, there is no conclusive evidence about the time of the story of the people of the town, while the story of the People of the Sabbath is definitively after the Torah, and they are the only exception.