Hadith 1020

If Al-Mushrikūn [polytheists, pagans, idolaters, and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allāh and in His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ] intercede the Muslims to invoke Allāh for rain during drought.

English source

Darussalam · Volume 2

15 - THE BOOK OF AL-ISTISQĀ' (i.e. to offer a two Rak'ā prayer and then to invoke Allāh for rain at the time of drought]

Sahih al-Bukhari Darussalam English translation

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Shamela Arabic edition

الحديث: 1020 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 30

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English translation

1020. Narrated Masrūq: One day I went to Ibn Mas'ud رضي الله عنه who said, "When Quraish delayed in embracing Islām, the Prophet ﷺ invoked Allāh to curse them, so they were afflicted with a drought (famine) year because of which many of them died and they ate the carcasses and bones. Abū Sufyān came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, 'O Muḥammad! You came to order people to keep good relation with kith and kin and your nation is being destroyed, so invoke Allāh. The Prophet ﷺ recited the Holy Verses of Sūrah Ad-Dukhān: 'Then wait you for the Day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke' (V.44:10). [When the famine was taken off,] the people renegaded once again as disbelievers. The Statement of Allāh تعالى (in Sūrah Ad-Dukhān) refers to that: 'On the Day when We shall seize you with the greatest seizure.' (V.44:16) And that was what happened on the day of the battle of Badr." Asbāt added on the authority of Manšūr, "Allāh's Messenger ﷺ invoked Allāh for rain for them and it rained heavily for seven days. The people complained of the excessive rain. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'O Allāh! (Let it rain) around us and not on us.' So, the clouds dispersed from over his head and it rained over the surroundings (i.e. away from their city)."

Arabic text

1020 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورٌ، وَالأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، قَالَ: أَتَيْتُ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ، فَقَالَ: إِنَّ قُرَيْشًا أَبْطَئُوا عَنِ الإِسْلاَمِ، «فَدَعَا عَلَيْهِمُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ حَتَّى هَلَكُوا فِيهَا، وَأَكَلُوا المَيْتَةَ وَالعِظَامَ»، فَجَاءَهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ، فَقَالَ: يَا مُحَمَّدُ جِئْتَ تَأْمُرُ بِصِلَةِ الرَّحِمِ وَإِنَّ قَوْمَكَ هَلَكُوا، فَادْعُ اللَّهَ، فَقَرَأَ: {فَارْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُبِينٍ} [الدخان: 10] ثُمَّ عَادُوا إِلَى كُفْرِهِمْ، فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {يَوْمَ نَبْطِشُ البَطْشَةَ الكُبْرَى إِنَّا مُنْتَقِمُونَ} [الدخان: 16] يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ: وَزَادَ أَسْبَاطٌ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَسُقُوا الغَيْثَ، فَأَطْبَقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعًا، وَشَكَا النَّاسُ كَثْرَةَ المَطَرِ، قَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَلاَ عَلَيْنَا» فَانْحَدَرَتِ السَّحَابَةُ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ، فَسُقُوا النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُمْ

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