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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Volume 2, Book 15, Number 104:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
The Prophet went out and offered a two Rakat prayer on the Day of ‘Id ul Fitr and did not offer any
other prayer before or after it and at that time Bilal was accompanying him.
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Book 16: Witr Prayer
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 120:
Narrated Abu Huraira;
Whenever the Prophet (p.b.u.h) lifted his head from the bowing in the last Raka he used to say: “O
Allah! Save ‘Aiyash bin Abi Rabi’a. O Allah! Save Salama bin Hisham. O Allah! Save Walid bin Walid.
O Allah! Save the weak faithful believers. O Allah! Be hard on the tribes of Mudar and send (famine)
years on them like the famine years of (Prophet) Joseph .” The Prophet further said, “Allah forgive the
tribes of Ghifar and save the tribes of Aslam.” Abu Az-Zinad (a sub-narrator) said, “The Qunut used
to be recited by the Prophet in the Fajr prayer.”
Volume 2, Book 16, Number 105:
Narrated Ibn Umar:
Once a person asked Allah’s Apostle about the night prayer. Allah’s Apostle replied, “The night
prayer is offered as two Rakat followed by two Rakat and so on and if anyone is afraid of the ap –
proaching dawn (Fajr prayer) he should pray one Raka and this will be a Witr for all the Rakat
which he has prayed before.” Nafi’ told that ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar used to say Taslim between (the
first) two Rakat and (the third) odd one in the Witr prayer, when he wanted to attend to a certain
matter (during that interval between the Rakat).
Volume 2, Book 17, Number 121:
Narrated Masruq:
We were with ‘Abdullah and he said, “When the Prophet saw the refusal of the people to accept Is –
lam he said, “O Allah! Send (famine) years on them for (seven years) like the seven years (of famine
during the time) of (Prophet) Joseph.” So famine overtook them for one year and destroyed every
kind of life to such an extent that the people started eating hides, carcasses and rotten dead animals.
Whenever one of them looked towards the sky, he would (imagine himself to) see smoke because of
hunger. So Abu Sufyan went to the Prophet and said, “O Muhammad! You order people to obey Allah
and to keep good relations with kith and kin. No doubt the people of your tribe are dying, so please
pray to Allah for them.” So Allah revealed: “Then watch you For the day that The sky will bring forth
a kind Of smoke Plainly visible … Verily! You will return (to disbelief) On the day when We shall
seize You with a mighty grasp. (44.10-16) Ibn Masud added, “Al-Batsha (i.e. grasp) happened in the
battle of Badr and no doubt smoke, Al-Batsha, Al-Lizam, and the verse of Surat Ar-Rum have all
passed .