Al-Dāraquṭnī also records, in a mursal report from Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir: “He turned his cloak so that the drought might be turned away.” ⦗1⦘

Degree of authenticity
This ḥadith is ḥasan.
The author states: “It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd, who said, ‘It is singular, and its chain is sound.’” Al-Ḥākim said: “This ḥadith is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim),” and al-Dhahabī concurred: “According to their criteria.” As for the version reported by al-Dāraquṭnī, al-Ḥākim supplied a connected chain for it through Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad from Ibn Jābir, and Muḥammad met Jābir.

Lexical notes
• al-qaḥṭ (drought): with ḍammah on the qāf, from the verb qaḥaṭa al-maṭar, “the rain ceased”; hence qaḥṭ is the withholding of rain, just as nahaḍa yanhaḍu is “to rise.”
• ḥājib (edge or brow): from ḥajaba yaḥjubu, “to screen” (pattern faʿala yafʿalu). Al-Muḥīṭ says: ḥājib of anything is its outer rim; ḥājib al-shams is the first part of the sun that appears, borrowed from the eyebrow (ḥājib al-ʿayn). The plural is ḥawājib, referring to the upper horn of the sun’s disk.
• jadb diyārikum (the barrenness of your dwellings): jadb is famine or aridity—synonymous in form and meaning with maḥl—the cessation of rain and the drying of the earth.
• balāghan ilā ḥīn (a provision until a time): i.e., sustenance that carries us for a long period; balāgh is whatever enables one to reach one’s goal.
• al-ghayth (beneficial rain): the rain through which Allah rescues the land from barrenness and revives the dead earth.