8. Ṣalāh for Rain (Istisqāʾ)
٨۔ كِتَابُ صَلَاةِ الِاسْتِسْقَاءِ
[Machine] When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw the people turning away, he said, "O Allah, send down rain upon them, for seven years they ate dead animals, skins, and bones." Abu Sufyan came to him with some people from the people of Mecca and said, "O Muhammad, you claim that you have been sent as a mercy, and yet your people have perished. Invoke Allah for them." So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ made supplication and then it rained heavily upon them seven times. The people complained about the abundance of rain, so he said, "O Allah, around us and not upon us," and the cloud moved away from above their heads. He said, "Thus the people were watered around them." He said, "The sign of the smoke has passed, and it is the hunger that afflicted them," and this is the saying of Allah ﷻ, "Indeed, We have relieved the torment of a little time (i.e. we delayed the punishment for them) - indeed, you are returning to Us." (Surah Ad-Dukhan 15) And the sign of being overwhelmed and the great victory on the day of Badr, and the splitting of the moon, they are mentioned in Sahih sources from various angles, except from Mansur. And Bukhari referred to the narration of Asbat and its addition, which came in the hadith about the Prophet's ﷺ supplication and its acceptance.
لَمَّا رَأَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِدْبَارًا قَالَ اللهُمَّ بِسَبْعٍ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ فَأَخْذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الْمَيْتَةَ وَالْجُلُودَ وَالْعِظَامَ فَجَاءَهُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَنَاسٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّكَ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّكَ بُعِثْتَ رَحْمَةً وَإِنَّ قَوْمَكَ قَدْ هَلَكُوا فَادْعُ اللهَ لَهُمْ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ فَسُقُوا الْغَيْثَ فَأَطْبَقَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعًا فَشَكَى النَّاسُ كَثْرَةَ الْمَطَرِ فَقَالَ اللهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَلَا عَلَيْنَا فَانْحَدَرَتِ السَّحَابَةُ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ قَالَ فَأُسْقِيَ النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُمْ قَالَ لَقَدْ مَضَتْ آيَةُ الدُّخَانِ وَهُوَ الْجُوعُ الَّذِي أَصَابَهُمْ وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ ﷻ {إِنَّا كَاشِفُو الْعَذَابِ قَلِيلًا إِنَّكُمْ عَائِدُونَ} [الدخان 15] وَآيَةُ اللُّزُومِ وَالْبَطْشَةِ الْكُبْرَى يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَانْشِقَاقِ الْقَمَرِ أَخْرَجَاهُ فِي الصَّحِيحِ مِنْ أَوْجُهٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ وَأَشَارَ الْبُخَارِيُّ إِلَى رِوَايَةِ أَسْبَاطٍ بِزِيَادَتِهِ الَّتِي جَاءَ بِهَا فِي الْحَدِيثِ مِنْ دُعَاءِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَإِجَابَةِ دَعْوَتِهِ