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Sunan an-Nasa'i 1526

It is Makruh to attribute rain to the stars

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أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَتَّابِ بْنِ حُنَيْنٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَوْ أَمْسَكَ اللَّهُ ﷻ الْمَطَرَ عَنْ عِبَادِهِ خَمْسَ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَهُ لأَصْبَحَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ كَافِرِينَ يَقُولُونَ سُقِينَا بِنَوْءِ الْمِجْدَحِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAlāʾ
  2. Sufyān
  3. ʿAmr
  4. ʿAttāb b. Ḥunayn
  5. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'If Allah (SWT) were to withhold rain from His slaves for five years and then send it, some of the people would become disbelievers, saying: "We have been given rain by the star of Al-Mijdah."

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Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
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al-AlbaniWeakin ضعيف سنن النسائي, p. 1525fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked

Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 4605وَعَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " لَوْ أَمْسَكَ اللَّهُ الْقَطْرَ عَنْ عِبَادِهِ خَمْسَ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَهُ لَأَصْبَحَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ كَافِرِينَ يَقُولُونَ: س

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
    أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
    عن
  2. acceptable (maqbūl)
    عَتَّابِ بْنِ حُنَيْنٍمقبول
    عن
  3. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
    عَمْرٍوثقة ثبت
    عن
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
    سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
    عن
  5. no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 248 AH
    عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِلا بأس به
    أخبرنا
  6. the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
    النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī

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