Sunan Abi Dawud 1173

Translation

The people complained to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ of the lack of rain, so he gave an order for a pulpit. It was then set up for him in the place of prayer. He fixed a day for the people on which they should come out. Aisha said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when the rim of the sun appeared, sat down on the pulpit, and having pronounced the greatness of Allah and expressed His praise, he said: You have complained of drought in your homes, and of the delay in receiving rain at the beginning of its season. Allah has ordered you to supplicate Him has and promised that He will answer your prayer. Then he said: Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universe, the Compassionate, the Merciful, the Master of the Day of Judgment. There is no god but Allah Who does what He wishes. O Allah, Thou art Allah, there is no deity but Thou, the Rich, while we are the poor. Send down the rain upon us and make what Thou sendest down a strength and satisfaction for a time. He then raised his hands, and kept raising them till the whiteness under his armpits was visible. He then turned his back to the people and inverted or turned round his cloak while keeping his hands aloft. He then faced the people, descended and prayed two rak'ahs. Allah then produced a cloud, and the storm of thunder and lightning came on. Then the rain fell by Allah's permission, and before he reached his mosque streams were flowing. When he saw the speed with which the people were seeking shelter, he ﷺ laughed till his back teeth were visible. Then he said: I testify that Allah is Omnipotent and that I am Allah's servant and apostle. Abu Dawud said: This is a ghraib (rate) tradition, but its chain is sound. The people of Medina recite "maliki" (instead of maaliki) yawm al-din" (the master of the Day of Judgement). But this tradition (in which the word maalik occurs) is an evidence for them.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ إِسْنَادُهُ جَيِّدٌ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ يَقْرَءُونَ { مَلِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ } وَإِنَّ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ حُجَّةٌ لَهُمْ

  machine translationAbū Dāwūd said: This is a gharīb hadith, and its chain of transmission is good. The people of Medina recite { مَلِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ }, and this hadith is a proof for them. Report a problem

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• Abū Daʾūd

  حديث غريب إسناده جيد

  machine translationA strange (gharīb) hadith; its chain of transmission is good (jayyid). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1171
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  حديث غريب وليس بمشهور لتفرد رواته إسناده جيد أي قوي لا علة فيه لاتصال إسناده وثقات رواته

  machine translationA strange (gharīb) hadith, and not well-known (mashhūr), because its narrators were alone in transmitting it. Its chain of transmission is good (jayyid), meaning strong, with no defect, because its chain is connected and its narrators are trustworthy. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1171
• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  صحيح على شرط الشيخين

  machine translationAuthentic (ṣaḥīḥ), meeting the criteria of the two Shaykhs. Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1171
• Ibn al-Sakan

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in سنن أبي داود, p. 1171

Same hadith, other wordings

• Hisnul Muslim 245لا إلهَ إلاّ اللّهُ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1097كَانَ إِذَا تَشَهَّدَ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ نَسْتَعِينُهُ وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ وَنَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنْفُسِنَا مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلاَ مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلاَ هَادِيَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1184أَنَّهُ شَهِدَ خُطْبَةً يَوْمًا لِسَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ قَالَ سَمُرَةُ بَيْنَمَا أَنَا وَغُلاَمٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ نَرْمِي غَرَضَيْنِ لَنَا حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَتِ الشَّمْسُ قِيدَ رُمْحَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلاَثَةٍ فِي عَيْنِ النَّاظِرِ مِنَ الأُ
• Misykatul Mashabih 1508عَن عَائِشَة قَالَتْ: شَكَا النَّاسُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قُحُوطَ الْمَطَرِ فَأَمَرَ بِمِنْبَرٍ فَوُضِعَ لَهُ فِي الْمُصَلَّى وَوَعَدَ النَّاسَ يَوْمًا يَخْرُجُونَ فِيهِ. قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ: فَخَرَجَ رَسُول
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1505عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ كَتَبَ مُعَاوِيَةُ إِلَى الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ أَىُّ شَىْءٍ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ إِذَا سَلَّمَ مِنَ الصَّلاَةِ فَأَمْلاَهَا الْمُغِيرَةُ عَلَيْهِ وَكَتَبَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1506سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا انْصَرَفَ مِنَ الصَّلاَةِ يَقُولُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَهُ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 1527Musnad Ahmad 13693Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30187al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6539Sunan al-Daraqutni 1838

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AH
   يُونُسَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأ
   عن
5. 5
   Al-Qāsim b. Mabrūr

   Truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, praised by Mālikd. 158 AH, or 159 AH
   الْقَاسِمُ بْنُ مَبْرُورٍصدوق فقيه أثنى عليه مالك
   حدثني
6. 6
   Khālid b. Nizār

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes.d. 222 AH.
   خَالِدُ بْنُ نِزَارٍصدوق يخطئ.
   نا
7. 7
   Hārūn b. Saʿīd al-Aylī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. before 250 AH, or: 253 AH
   هَارُونُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الْأَيْلِيُّثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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