413 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with both of them) narrated: “Never did the wind blow but that the Prophet ﷺ dropped to his knees and said, ‘O Allah, make it a mercy and do not make it a punishment.’” It was transmitted by al-Shāfiʿī and al-Ṭabarānī. (1)

Level of authenticity:
The report is weak. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Talkhīṣ: “Al-Shāfiʿī recorded it in al-Umm, and it was also collected by al-Ṭabarānī and Abū Yaʿlā through the chain of Ḥusayn ibn Qays from ʿIkrimah.”
Al-Haythamī stated in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid: “Its chain contains Ḥusayn ibn Qays al-Raḥbī al-Wāsiṭī, who has been declared unreliable, while the rest of the transmitters are those found in the sound collections.”

Vocabulary:
• habbat – from hubūb (pattern: faʿala-yafʿulu); the blowing and surging of the wind. Al-hubūb is a wind that raises dust.
• rīḥ – in the singular it is said to appear only in contexts of punishment, as in, “When We unleashed upon them the barren wind” (Q 51:41), whereas the plural riyāḥ denotes winds of mercy: “And We send the winds as pollinators” (Q 15:22).
• qaṭṭu – with the final ṭāʾ doubled and in the nominative case; an adverb restricted to the past, conveying total negation. Thus, “I never did it, qaṭṭu” means “I have not done it at any time in my life.” It derives from qaṭaʿtuhu (I cut it) and occurs only after a negative or interrogative clause.
• jathā – to fall or sit upon one’s knees, juthūʾan; conjugated like ʿalā and ramā. The active participle is jāthin; the intended meaning is: