1172 — Musallam ibn Ibrahim narrated to us: Shu‘bah narrated to us, from ‘Abd Rabbihi ibn Sa‘id, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim: One who saw the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, supplicating at the Stones of al-Zayt with his palms spread out informed me.

1173 — Harun ibn Sa‘id al-Ayli narrated to us: Khalid ibn Nizar narrated to us, saying: al-Qasim ibn Mabrur narrated to me, from Yunus, from Hisham ibn ‘Urwah, from his father, from ‘A’ishah, who said: The people complained to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, of the lack of rain. So he ordered a pulpit, and it was placed for him in the prayer ground, and he promised the people a day on which they would go out. ‘A’ishah said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, went out when the edge of the sun had appeared, and he sat down.

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And it was also recorded by Muslim (896) via the route of Hammad ibn Salamah, and also by Muslim (895), and al-Nasa’i in al-Kubra (1440) via the route of Shu‘bah ibn al-Hajjaj, both from Thabit al-Bunani, with it. It is in Musnad Ahmad (12903) and Sahih Ibn Hibban (877). See also what precedes it, and what will come as no. 1174.

Al-Nawawi said: A group of scholars said: The sunnah in every supplication for the removal of a calamity such as drought and the like is to raise one’s hands and make the backs of one’s palms face the sky; and when one supplicates for the asking of something and its attainment, one makes the palms of one’s hands face the sky. They adduced this hadith as evidence.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. This unnamed Companion is ‘Umayr, the freed slave of Abi al-Lahm, and his name has already been explicitly mentioned in the narration (1168). Shu‘bah: he is ibn al-Hajjaj, and Muhammad ibn Ibrahim: he is al-Taymi. It was also recorded by Ahmad (16413), al-Bukhari in Raf‘ al-Yadayn (89), Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi in al-Ja‘diyyat (1636) and (1637), and Ibn Abi ‘Asim in al-Ahad wa al-Mathani (2931) via the route of Shu‘bah ibn al-Hajjaj, with this chain of transmission. See also what preceded as no. 1168.

The Stones of al-Zayt: Yaqut said: A place in Medina near al-Zawra’, and it is the place of the prayer for rain.