down his beard. We were showered with rain that day, the next day, and the day after, until the following Friday. Then that Bedouin—or someone else—stood up and said, “Messenger of Allah, the buildings are collapsing and the dependents are going hungry; pray to Allah for us.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his hands and said, “O Allah, around us and not upon us.” He would point with his hands to a patch of cloud, and it would part, until Medina was left like a hollow in the midst of clear sky. The valley of Qanāh flowed for a whole month, and no one came from any direction without speaking of abundant rain. Agreed upon.

Thābit, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Suhayb, and others also transmitted it from Anas.

ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar and Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah said: Shuʿbah narrated to us from Abū Jaʿfar al-Khatmī, who heard ʿImārah ibn Khuzaymah ibn Thābit relate from ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunays that a blind man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “Pray to Allah that He heal me.” He replied, “If you wish, I will delay that— and it will be better for you— or if you wish, I will supplicate.” The man said, “Then supplicate.” The Prophet instructed him to perform ablution well, to pray two rakʿahs, and to say: “O Allah, I ask You and turn to You through Your Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, the Prophet of mercy. O Muhammad, I turn with you to my Lord concerning this need of mine— let it be fulfilled. O Allah, accept his intercession regarding me and accept my own intercession regarding myself.” The man did so and was cured.

Al-Bayhaqī said: Hammad ibn Salamah also narrated it from Abū Jaʿfar al-Khatmī.

Aḥmad ibn Shabīb ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥabṭī said: My father narrated to me from Rūḥ ibn al-Qāsim, from Abū Jaʿfar al-Madīnī al-Khatmī, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl ibn Ḥunays, from his uncle ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunays, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a blind man came to him complaining that he had lost his sight, and he said, “Go to the place of ablution, perform ablution, then…”