Volume 2, Book 17, Number 128:
Narrated Qatada:
Anas I said, “While Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) was delivering the Friday Khutba (sermon) a man
came and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostle! Rain is scarce; please ask Allah to bless us with rain.’ So he invoked
Allah for it, and it rained so much that we could hardly reach our homes and it continued raining till
the next Friday.” Anas further said, “Then the same or some other person stood up and said, ‘O Allah’s
Apostle! Invoke Allah to withhold the rain.’ On that, Allah’s Apostle I said, ‘O Allah! Round about us
and not on us.’ ” Anas added, “I saw the clouds dispersing right and left and it continued to rain but
not over Medina.”
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Volume 2, Book 17, Number 129:
Narrated Anas:
A man came to the Prophet (p.b.u.h) and said, “Livestock are destroyed and the roads are cut off.”
So Allah’s Apostle invoked Allah for rain and it rained from that Friday till the next Friday. The same
person came again and said, “Houses have collapsed, roads are cut off, and the livestock are des –
troyed. Please pray to Allah to withhold the rain.” Allah’s Apostle (stood up and) said, “O Allah! (Let it
rain) on the plateaus, on the hills, in the valleys and over the places where trees grow.” So the clouds
cleared away from Medina as clothes are taken off .
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 130:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Livestock are destroyed and the roads
are cut off. So please invoke Allah.” So Allah’s Apostle prayed and it rained from that Friday to the
next Friday. Then he came to Allah’s Apostle I and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Houses have collapsed,
roads are cut off and the livestock are destroyed.” So Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) prayed, “O Allah! (Let it
rain) on the tops of mountains, on the plateaus, in the valleys and over the places where trees grow.”
So the clouds cleared away from Medina as clothes are taken off.
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 131:
Narrated Anas bin Malik
I p man complained to the Prophet about the destruction of livestock and property and the hunger
of the offspring. So he invoked (Allah for rain. The narrator (Anas) did not mention that the Prophet
had worn his cloak inside out or faced the Qibla.
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 132:
Narrated Anas bin Malik
A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Livestock are destroyed and the roads
are cut off; so please invoke Allah.” So Allah’s Apostle prayed for rain and it rained from that Friday
till the next Friday. Then a man came to the Prophet (p.b.u.h) and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! The houses
have collapsed, roads are cut off and the livestock are destroyed.” So Allah’s Apostle said, “O Allah !
(Let it rain) on the tops of the mountains, on the plateaus, in the valleys and over the places where
trees grow.” So the clouds cleared away from Medina as clothes are taken off.
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Volume 2, Book 17, Number 133:
Narrated Masruq:
One day I went to Ibn Masud who said, “When Quraish delayed in embracing Islam, the Prophet I
invoked Allah to curse them, so they were afflicted with a (famine) year because of which many of
them died and they ate the carcasses and Abu Sufyan came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Muhammad!
You came to order people to keep good relation with kith and kin and your nation is being destroyed,
so invoke Allah I ? So the Prophet I recited the Holy verses of Sirat-Ad-Dukhan: ‘Then watch you For
the day that The sky will Bring forth a kind Of smoke Plainly visible.’ (44.10) When the famine was
taken off, the people renegade once again as nonbelievers. The statement of Allah, (in Sura “Ad-
Dukhan”-44) refers to that: ‘On the day when We shall seize You with a mighty grasp.’ (44.16) And
that was what happened on the day of the battle of Badr.” Asbath added on the authority of Mansur,
“Allah’s Apostle prayed for them and it rained heavily for seven days. So the people complained of the
excessive rain. The Prophet said, ‘O Allah! (Let it rain) around us and not on us.’ So the clouds dis –
persed over his head and it rained over the surroundings.”
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 134:
Narrated Anas:
Allah’s Apostle I was delivering the Khutba (sermon) on a Friday when the people stood up,
shouted and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! There is no rain (drought), the trees have dried and the live –
stock are destroyed; Please pray to Allah for rain.” So Allah’s Apostle said twice, “O Allah! Bless us
with rain.” By Allah, there was no trace of cloud in the sky and suddenly the sky became overcast
with clouds and it started raining. The Prophet came down the pulpit and offered the prayer. When
he came back from the prayer (to his house) it was raining and it rained continuously till the next
Friday. When the Prophet started delivering the Friday Khutba (sermon), the people started shouting
and said to him, “The houses have collapsed and the roads are cut off; so please pray to Allah to
withhold the rain.” So the Prophet smiled and said, “O Allah! Round about us and not on us.” So the
sky became clear over Medina but it kept on raining over the outskirts (of Medina) and not a single
drop of rain fell over Median. I looked towards the sky which was as bright and clear as a crown.
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 135:
Narrated Abbas bin Tamim
that his uncle (who was one of the companions of the Prophet) had told him, “The Prophet went
out with the people to invoke Allah for rain for them. He stood up and invoked Allah for rain, then
faced the Qibla and turned his cloak (inside out) and it rained.”
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