Prophetic Commentary on the Qur'an (Tafseer of the Prophet (pbuh))
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4822
اللَّهُمَّ أَعِنِّي عَلَيْهِمْ بِسَبْعٍ كَسَبْعِ يُوسُفَ فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ أَكَلُوا فِيهَا الْعِظَامَ وَالْمَيْتَةَ مِنْ الْجَهْدِ حَتَّى جَعَلَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَرَى مَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ كَهَيْئَةِ الدُّخَانِ مِنْ الْجُوعِ قَالُوا  رَبَّنَا اكْشِف
Allāhumma aʿinnī ʿalayhim bisabʿin kasabʿi yūsufa fa-akhadhathum sanatun akalūā fīhā al-ʿiẓāma wa-l-maytaha min al-jahdi ḥattā jaʿala aḥaduhum yarā mā baynah wabayna as-samāʾi kahayʾah ad-dukhāni min al-jūʿi qālūā  rabbanā ākshif
Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks
The full narration
Narrated `Abdullah:It is a sign of having knowledge that, when you do not know something, you say: 'Allah knows better.' Allah said to his Prophet: 'Say: No wage do I ask of you for this (Qur'an), nor am I one of the pretenders (a person who pretends things which do not exist)' (38.86) When the Quraish troubled and stood against the Prophet (ﷺ) he said, "O Allah! Help me against them by afflicting them with seven years of famine like the seven years of Joseph." So they were stricken with a year of famine during which they ate bones and dead animals because of too much suffering, and one of them would see something like smoke between him and the sky because of hunger. Then they said: Our Lord! Remove the torment from us, really we are believers. (44.12) And then it was said to the Prophet (by Allah), "If We remove it from them, they will revert to their ways (of heathenism)." So the Prophet (ﷺ) invoked his Lord, who removed the punishment from them, but later they reverted (to heathenism), whereupon Allah punished them on the day of the Battle of Badr, and that is what Allah's Statement indicates: 'Then watch for the day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly visible...We will indeed (then) exact retribution
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 4822
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)