or is even more strongly emphasized. The qiblah faced during this supplication is precisely the same as the qiblah for prayer. Hence, when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, supplicated earnestly, he would face it, as he did during the prayer for rain in which he raised his hands high.

ʿAbbād ibn Tamīm narrated from his paternal uncle that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, went out with the people to seek rain. He led them in two units of prayer, reciting aloud in both, reversed his cloak, raised his hands, supplicated and asked for rain, and faced the qiblah.

This was narrated by the compilers of the Sahīh, Sunan, and Musnad collections, such as al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasā’ī, and Ibn Mājah