Sahih al-Bukhari 1008

Translation

My father said, "I heard Ibn ʿUmar reciting the poetic verses of Abu Talib: And a white (person) (i.e. the Prophet) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows." Salim's father (Ibn ʿUmar) said, "The following poetic verse occurred to my mind while I was looking at the face of the Prophet ﷺ while he was praying for rain. He did not get down till the rain water flowed profusely from every roof-gutter: And a white (person) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows... And these were the words of Abu Talib."

Notes

• وَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ حَمْزَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سَالِمٌ عَنْ أَبِيهِ رُبَّمَا ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ الشَّاعِرِ وَأَنَا أَنْظُرُ إِلَى وَجْهِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَسْتَسْقِي فَمَا يَنْزِلُ حَتَّى يَجِيشَ كُلُّ مِيزَابٍ وَأَبْيَضَ يُسْتَسْقَى الْغَمَامُ بِوَجْهِهِ ثِمَالَ الْيَتَامَى عِصْمَةً لِلأَرَامِلِ وَهْوَ قَوْلُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

  machine translationʿUmar b. Ḥamzah said: Sālim narrated to us, from his father: Often I would recall the saying of the poet while looking at the face of the Prophet ﷺ as he prayed for rain, and he would not step down until every gutter was flowing: "And a fair-faced one by whose countenance the clouds are asked to give rain, a refuge of the orphans, a protection for the widows." And it is the saying of Abū Ṭālib. Report a problem

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 1009سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، يَتَمَثَّلُ بِشِعْرِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَأَبْيَضَ يُسْتَسْقَى الْغَمَامُ بِوَجْهِهِ ثِمَالُ الْيَتَامَى عِصْمَةٌ لِلأَرَامِلِ وَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ حَمْزَةَ حَدَّثَنَا سَالِمٌ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، رُبَّمَا ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ الشَّاع

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 1272Musnad Ahmad 26Musnad Ahmad 5673Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32631al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6518al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6519

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 127 AH, or 131 AH, or 136 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdullāh b. Dīnār

   truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. between 161 AH and 170 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍصدوق يخطئ
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū Qutaybah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 200 AH or 201 AH or 202 AH
   أَبُو قُتَيْبَةَصدوق
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAmr b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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