What Was Narrated Concerning Supplication For Rain
Darussalam · Volume 2
(5) The Chapters OfEstablishing The PrayerAnd The SunnahRegarding ThemSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 1272 · Volume 3 · Page 272
Hasan
حسن التعليق على ابن ماجة
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1272. Sālim narrated that his father said: "Sometimes I remember the words of the poet when I was looking at the face of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ on the pulpit. He did not come down until all the waterspouts in Al-Madinah were filled with rain. And I remember what the poet said: 'He has a white complexion and rain is sought by virtue of his countenance, He cares for the orphans, and protects the widows.' These are the words of Abu Tālib." (Hasan)
1272 - حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْأَزْهَرِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَقِيلٍ، عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَالِمٌ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: " رُبَّمَا ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ الشَّاعِرِ وَأَنَا أَنْظُرُ إِلَى وَجْهِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ، فَمَا نَزَلَ حَتَّى جَيَّشَ كُلُّ مِيزَابٍ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَأَذْكُرُ قَوْلَ الشَّاعِرِ: [البحر الطويل] وَأَبْيَضَ يُسْتَسْقَى الْغَمَامُ بِوَجْهِهِ ... ثِمَالُ الْيَتَامَى عِصْمَةٌ لِلْأَرَامِلِ " ، وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ
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Taking the person of the Prophet ﷺ as a medium of approach (Wasilah) for Allāh in supplication is the way of Abu Tālib who lived a disbeliever and died a disbeliever. The Companions, however, had a perfect understanding of the teachings of the Islamic faith, as well as of the demands of monotheism, and the limits imposed by Islam in their expression of love for the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. They always made a request to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ to supplicate to Allāh for them, as long as he was alive. In other is mentioned by him in this narration. Ibn Khuzaimah's version has it: "I saw Allāh's Messenger ﷺ extending his hands, until I saw the whiteness of his armpits." And after it; "Sulaimān said: 'I think that he was supplicating for the rain.'" So it is clear that Mu'tamir was trying to remember what he heard his father narrate, and that the original does not contain the mention of rain, and Allāh knows best. words, they made the supplication of the Prophet ﷺ, and not his person, as their means of approach to Allāh.