Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam ‘ala Rasulillah
Narrated Anas (Radi-Allahu ‘anhu):
Once
during the lifetime of Allah’s Apostle (Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam),
the people of Medina suffered from drought. So while the Prophet
(Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam) was delivering a sermon on a Friday a man
got up saying, “O Allah’s Apostle! The horses and sheep have perished.
Will you invoke Allah to bless us with rain?” The Prophet (Sallallahu
‘Alaihi Wa Sallam) lifted both his hands and invoked. The sky at that
time was as clear as glass. Suddenly a wind blew, raising clouds that
gathered together, and it started raining heavily. We came out (of the
Mosque) wading through the flowing water till we reached our homes. It
went on raining till the next Friday, when the same man or some other
man stood up and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! The houses have collapsed;
please invoke Allah to withhold the rain.” On that the Prophet
(Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam) smiled and said, “O Allah, (let it rain)
around us and not on us.”
I then looked at the clouds to see them separating forming a sort of a
crown round Medina.
Bukhari Vol. 4 : No. 782