59. Beginning of Creation

٥٩۔ كتاب بدء الخلق

59.5 Allah's Statement: "And it is He Who sends the winds as heralds of glad tidings, going before his Mercy (rain)..."

٥٩۔٥ باب مَا جَاءَ فِي قَوْلِهِ: {وَهْوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ نُشُرًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَحْمَتِهِ}

[Machine] "Causing destruction, it strikes everything. "Vaccines", they inoculate, are a source of immunity. "Tornado" is a powerful wind that blows from the ground to the sky, like a pillar with fire. "Hail" is cold. "Scattered" disperses apart.

{قَاصِفًا} تَقْصِفُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ. {لَوَاقِحَ} مَلاَقِحَ مُلْقِحَةً. {إِعْصَارٌ} رِيحٌ عَاصِفٌ، تَهُبُّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَعَمُودٍ فِيهِ نَارٌ. {صِرٌّ} بَرْدٌ. {نُشُرًا} مُتَفَرِّقَةً.

bukhari:3205Ādam > Shuʿbah > al-Ḥakam > Mujāhid > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ said, "I have been made victorious with the Saba (i.e. easterly wind) and the people of 'Ad were destroyed with the Dabur (i.e. westerly wind) ."  

البخاري:٣٢٠٥حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ نُصِرْتُ بِالصَّبَا وَأُهْلِكَتْ عَادٌ بِالدَّبُورِ  

bukhari:3206Makkī b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Jurayj > ʿAṭāʾ > ʿĀʾishah

ʿAisha said If the Prophet ﷺ saw a cloud In the sky, he would walk to and fro in agitation, go out and come in, and the color of his face would change, and if it rained, he would feel relaxed." So ʿAisha knew that state of his. So the Prophet ﷺ said, I don't know (am afraid), it may be similar to what happened to some people referred to in the Holy Qur'an in the following Verse: -- "Then when they saw it as a dense cloud coming towards their valleys, they said, 'This is a cloud bringing us rain!' Nay, but, it is that (torment) which you were asking to be hastened a wind wherein is severe torment." (46.24)  

البخاري:٣٢٠٦حَدَّثَنَا مَكِّيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا رَأَى مَخِيلَةً فِي السَّمَاءِ أَقْبَلَ وَأَدْبَرَ وَدَخَلَ وَخَرَجَ وَتَغَيَّرَ وَجْهُهُ فَإِذَا أَمْطَرَتِ السَّمَاءُ سُرِّيَ عَنْهُ فَعَرَّفَتْهُ عَائِشَةُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَا أَدْرِي لَعَلَّهُ كَمَا قَالَ قَوْمٌ {فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًا مُسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ} الآيَةَ