An Arabi came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "Messenger of Allah, I have come to you from a people whose shepherds have no provisions left, and whose stallions no longer mount the females."So he ascended the pulpit, praised Allah, and then said, "O Allah, give us rain that relieves us, wholesome and abundant, covering the land, fertile and plentiful, swift and not delayed."Then he descended, and no one came to him from any direction without saying, "We have been revived."
جاء أعرابي إلى النبي ﷺ فقال: يا رسول الله! لقد جئتك من عند قوم ما يتزود لهم راع، ولا يخطر لهم فحل، فصعد المنبر، فحمد الله ثم قال: اللهم اسقنا غيثا مغيثا مريئا طبقا مريعا غدقا، عاجلا غير رائث. ثم نزل، فما يأتيه أحد من وجه من الوجوه إلا قالوا: قد أحيينا.
Ibn Majah (1270) narrated it from Muhammad bin Abu Qasim Abu Ahwas, who said, Hasan bin Rabi told us, who said, Abdullah bin Idris told us, who said, Husayn told us, from Habib bin Abu Thabit, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. Its chain of transmission is sahih. Busiri also graded it sahih in Zawaid bin Majah. Habib bin Abu Thabit is trustworthy and a hafiz, and the imams of criticism and validation affirmed his trustworthiness. However, he narrated two hadiths, the hadith of the woman with prolonged menstrual bleeding who prays even if blood drips, and the hadith of kissing for one who is fasting, that he did not hear directly, so Ibn Khuzayma and Ibn Hibban accused him of tadlis (concealing a defect in transmission) regarding them. As for the rest of his hadiths, they are to be regarded as directly transmitted unless his tadlis becomes evident.