The Prophet ﷺ said, "While a man was in a barren stretch of land, he heard a voice from a cloud saying, 'Water the garden of so-and-so.' That cloud then moved aside and poured its water onto a stony tract. When he reached the tract, he found that the water had gathered into the channels, and one of those channels had absorbed all the water. He followed the water and came upon a man standing in his garden, directing the water with his shovel.He asked him, 'Servant of Allah, what is your name?'The man replied with the very name he had heard from the cloud.The man then asked him, 'Servant of Allah, why do you ask me about my name?'He said, 'I heard a voice in the cloud whose water this is, saying, Water the garden of so-and-so, mentioning your name. What do you do in this garden?'He answered, 'Since you ask, I look at what it produces. I give a third in charity, I eat with my family from a third, and I return a third back into it.'"
حدثنا يزيد أخبرنا عبد العزيز بن عبد الله بن أبي سلمة الماجشون عن وهب بن كيسان عن عبيد بن عمير الليثي
عن النبي ﷺ قال بينما رجل بفلاة من الأرض فسمع صوتا في سحابة اسق حديقة فلان فتنحى ذلك السحاب فأفرغ ماءه في حرة فانتهى إلى الحرة فإذا هو في أذناب شراج وإذا شرجة من تلك الشراج قد استوعبت ذلك الماء كله فتبع الماء فإذا رجل قائم في حديقته يحول الماء بمسحاته فقال له يا عبد الله ما اسمك قال فلان بالاسم الذي سمع في السحابة فقال له يا عبد الله لم تسألني عن اسمي قال إني سمعت صوتا في السحاب الذي هذا ماؤه يقول اسق حديقة فلان لاسمك فما تصنع فيها قال أما إذا قلت هذا فإني أنظر إلى ما خرج منها فأتصدق بثلثه وآكل أنا وعيالي ثلثه وأرد فيها ثلثه
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Abu Salama Majishun, his reliability was already established at 2187, and it should be added here that Bukhari gave his biography in Saghir, p.190, and Ibn Saad gave two biographical entries at 5:307 and 7/2/68, and Ibn Abu Hatim at 2/2/381. Wahb bin Kaysan, his reliability was already established at 2002 and 5869, and it should be added here that Ibn Abu Hatim gave his biography at 4/2/23. Ubayd bin Umayr Laythi, his reliability was already established, and that he was an early follower of the companions, at 4872, and it should be added here that Ibn Saad gave his biography at 5:341-342, Ibn Abu Hatim at 2/2/409, and the Hafiz in Isabah at 5:79. People's praise of him as good, in the presence of Ibn Umar, was already noted in hadith 5359.The hadith appears in Jami al-Masanid 7:282-283. Tayalisi related it at 2587 from Abdul-Aziz Majishun, with this same chain. Muslim related it at 2:389-390 through Yazid bin Harun from Majishun. He then related it through Tayalisi from Majishun, but did not give its wording, referring instead to the version of Yazid bin Harun. It also appears in Targheeb wal-Tarheeb 2:21, attributed there to Muslim alone.His saying, "so that cloud made for," means it headed toward or aimed for. One says "tanahhaytu" and "intahaytu" meaning "I aimed for" or "I headed toward." Qadi Iyad said in Mashariq 2:6 that it means the cloud relied on that lava field and headed for it. "Harrah," with fatha on the ha and doubled ra, is land covered with black stones.His saying, "so there it was, at the lower ends of the shiraj," and so on, "shiraj," with kasra on the dotted shin, is the plural of "shirjah," with fatha on the dotted letter and sukun on the ra, which means a channel through which water flows from the lava field down to the flat land. Its "adhnab" (tails) are its extremities and lower parts.As for his saying "and there was a shirjah," this is the correct and established reading found in manuscript M and in Jami al-Masanid. In manuscripts H and K it appears as "shirajah," with an alif after the ra, which is an error."Al-mishah," with kasra on the mim, is an iron digging tool.