Sahih al-Bukhari 992 (Book 15, Hadith 15)
invoked Allah to curse them, so they were afflicted with a (famine) year because of which many of
them died and they ate the carcasses and Abu Sufyan came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, ‘O Muhammad!
You came to order people to keep good relation with kith and kin and your nation is being destroyed,
so invoke Allah I ? So the Prophet (ﷺ) I recited the Holy verses of Sirat-Ad-Dukhan: ‘Then watch you For
the day that The sky will Bring forth a kind Of smoke Plainly visible.’ (44.10) When the famine was
taken off, the people renegade once again as nonbelievers. The statement of Allah, (in Sura “Ad-
Dukhan”-44) refers to that: ‘On the day when We shall seize You with a mighty grasp.’ (44.16) And
that was what happened on the day of the battle of Badr.” Asbath added on the authority of Mansur,
“Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) prayed for them and it rained heavily for seven days. So the people complained of the
excessive rain. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘O Allah! (Let it rain) around us and not on us.’ So the clouds
dispersed over his head and it rained over the surroundings.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 992 (Book 15, Hadith 15)
The above hadith is from the Sahih al-Buhari collection of hadiths. The compilation known as Sahih al-Bukhari is a paramount collection of the Sunnah and hadith of the Prophet Muhammad. Its creator, Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī, dedicated his life to this work, completing it around 847. It holds a position of immense respect as arguably the most authentic book in Sunni Islam after the Holy Quran. As a key pillar of the six canonical books (Kutub al-Sittah), its detailed 97-chapter structure houses an estimated 7,563 narrations that continue to shape Islamic theology, law, and ethics to this day.
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For more Hadith in Book 15: Invoking Allah for Rain (Istisqaa)