When the rain would not stop
A week earlier the same man had come asking for it.
اللَّهُمَّ ظُهُورَ الْجِبَالِ وَالآكَامِ وَبُطُونَ الأَوْدِيَةِ وَمَنَابِتَ الشَّجَرِ
Allāhumma ẓuhūra-l-jibāli wa-l-ākām, wa buṭūna-l-awdiyah, wa manābita-sh-shajar
“O Allah, on the ridges of the mountains and the hills, in the beds of the valleys, and where the trees grow.”
Where this comes from
A man came saying the livestock were dying and the roads were cut, so he asked, and it rained from one Friday to the next. Then a man came saying the houses had collapsed and the roads were cut and the livestock were dying. He did not ask for it to stop. He asked for it to be moved.
The full narration
Yahya related to me from Malik from Sharik ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Namir that Anas ibn Malik said, "A man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah, our animals are dying and our camels are too weak to travel, so make dua to Allah.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made dua, and it rained on us from one jumua to the next." Anas continued, "Then a man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah, our houses have fallen down, the paths are blocked, and our flocks are dying.' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'O Allah, (only) the mountain and hill-tops, the valley bottoms, and the places where trees grow.' " Anas added, "It cleared away from Madina like a garment being removed." Malik said, about a man who missed the prayer of asking for rain but caught the khutba, and wished to pray in the mosque, or in his house when he returned, "He is free to do so, or not, as he wishes
Source
Muwaṭṭa' Mālik · 451
- Salim al-Hilali: Sahih