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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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 2 > BOOK 17: INVOKING ALLAH FOR RAIN (ISTISQAA)

Volume 1, Book 10, Number 550:
Narrated Qatada:
Anas bin Malik said, “The Prophet and Zaid bin Thabit took the ‘Suhur’ together and after finishing
the meal, the Prophet stood up and prayed (Fajr prayer).” I asked Anas, “How long was the interval
between finishing their ‘Suhur’ and starting the prayer?” He replied, “The interval between the two
was just sufficient to recite fifty ‘Ayat.” (Verses of the Quran).”

Volume 1, Book 5, Number 268:
Narrated Qatada:
Anas bin Malik said, “The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night
and they were eleven in number.” I asked Anas, “Had the Prophet the strength for it?” Anas replied,
“We used to say that the Prophet was given the strength of thirty (men).” And Sa’id said on the au –
thority of Qatada that Anas had told him about nine wives only (not eleven).