Masʿud say: He then mentioned it. Ibn Jarir narrated it. I say: Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators used by al-Bukhari and Muslim, apart from this Yazid—al-Hashimi, their client—who had poor retention. Thus, there is no harm in using him for corroborating reports. In al-Durr al-Manthur (5/73), it is attributed to al-Khara’iti in Makarim al-Akhlaq.

After citing the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbas, al-Baghawi said in Maʿalim al-Tanzil (6/184, al-Manar edition): “This accords with what has been narrated in a report attributed to the Prophet: There is not an hour of night or day in which rain does not fall from the sky; Allah directs it wherever He wills. Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Jurayj, and Muqatil also related it, tracing it back to Ibn Masʿud, who attributed it to the Prophet: ‘No year is rainier (1) than another. Rather, Allah has apportioned these provisions, placing them in the lowest heaven over this region; every year, they descend from it in a determined measure and a determined weight. When a people commit sins, Allah diverts it to others; and if all of them commit sins, Allah diverts it to the deserts and the seas.’”

I say: It appears from the foregoing that, although this hadith is attributed to a Companion, it carries the ruling of a report attributed to the Prophet, since such a matter cannot be stated on the basis of opinion and independent legal reasoning, and since it has also been narrated as a report attributed to the Prophet. And Allah knows best.

2462 — “A Qurayshi man will violate its sanctity—that is, Mecca—and through him the Meccan Sanctuary will be violated. Were his sins weighed against the sins of humans and jinn, they would outweigh them.”

Ahmad narrated it (2/196 and 219): Hashim told us; Ishaq—that is, Ibn Saʿid—told us; Saʿid ibn ʿAmr told us: “ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr came to Ibn al-Zubayr while he was sitting in al-Hijr and said: ‘O Ibn al-Zubayr!’”