Sahih al-Bukhari 1021
To say, "Around us and not on us." when it rains excessively
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرٌ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ
كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ يَوْمَ جُمُعَةٍ، فَقَامَ النَّاسُ فَصَاحُوا، فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، قَحَطَ الْمَطَرُ، وَاحْمَرَّتِ الشَّجَرُ، وَهَلَكَتِ الْبَهَائِمُ، فَادْعُ اللَّهَ يَسْقِينَا. فَقَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ اسْقِنَا» مَرَّتَيْنِ. وَايْمُ اللَّهِ مَا نَرَى فِي السَّمَاءِ قَزَعَةً مِنْ سَحَابٍ، فَنَشَأَتْ سَحَابَةٌ فَأَمْطَرَتْ، وَنَزَلَ عَنِ الْمِنْبَرِ فَصَلَّى. فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ لَمْ تَزَلْ تُمْطِرُ إِلَى الْجُمُعَةِ الَّتِي تَلِيهَا. فَلَمَّا قَامَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ، صَاحُوا إِلَيْهِ: تَهَدَّمَتِ الْبُيُوتُ، وَانْقَطَعَتِ السُّبُلُ، فَادْعُ اللَّهَ يَحْبِسُهَا عَنَّا. فَتَبَسَّمَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَلَا عَلَيْنَا». فَكُشِطَتِ الْمَدِينَةُ، فَجَعَلَتْ تُمْطِرُ حَوْلَهَا وَلَا تَمْطُرُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ قَطْرَةً، فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَإِنَّهَا لَفِي مِثْلِ الْإِكْلِيلِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr
- Muʿtamir
- ʿUbaydullāh
- Thābit
- Anas
The Prophet ﷺ was delivering a sermon on a Friday when the people stood up and cried out, saying, “O Messenger of Allah, the rainfall has ceased, the trees have withered, and the livestock have perished—so supplicate to Allah to give us rain.” He said, “O Allah, give us rain,” twice. By Allah, we did not see in the sky even a small patch of cloud, then a cloud formed and it rained. He came down from the pulpit and prayed. When he finished, it continued to rain until the next Friday. Then, when the Prophet ﷺ stood to deliver the sermon, they cried out to him, “The houses have collapsed and the roads have been cut off—so supplicate to Allah to withhold it from us.” The Prophet ﷺ smiled, then said: allāhumma, hawālaynaa wa laa ʿalaynā “O Allah, ˹let it rain˺ around us and not upon us.” So the rain was turned away from Madinah: it began to rain around it, and not a single drop fell upon the city. I looked at Madinah, and it was as though it were in the middle of a wreath.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 1174Musnad Ahmad 13700Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37584Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8423al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 6538
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 144 AH or 145 AH or 146 AH or 147 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِثقة ثبتعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AHمُعْتَمِرٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 234 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍثقةحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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