Rain was withheld during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so we asked the Prophet of Allah to pray for rain on our behalf. He prayed for rain, and the next morning the Prophet of Allah ﷺ came upon a group of people talking. They were saying, "We were given rain last night by such and such a star."The Prophet of Allah said, "Allah does not bestow a blessing upon a people without some of them waking up as deniers of it."
قحط المطر على عهد رسول الله ﷺ فسألنا نبي الله أن يستسقى لنا، فاستسقى، فغدا نبي الله ﷺ، فإذا هو بقوم يتحدثون، قالوا: سقينا الليلة بنوء كذا وكذا، فقال نبي الله: ما أنعم الله على قوم نعمة إلا أصبحوا بها كافرين.
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Bazzar (1024) and Tabarani in Musnad Shamiyin (1102) both narrated it through the route of Ismail bin Ayyash, from Rashid bin Dawud Sanani, from Abu Uthman Sanani, from Abu Darda, who said, then he related it.Its chain is hasan because of Rashid bin Dawud Sanani, since there has been some criticism of him, but his hadith is judged hasan when it has sound foundations and contains no objectionable content, and this narration is of that kind.Haythami said in Majma (2/212), "Bazzar and Tabarani narrated it, and it contains Ismail bin Ayyash, about whom there has been some discussion."I say, Ismail bin Ayyash is Shami, and his hadith from Shami narrators is hasan, and this narration is of that kind. The criticism of him only applies when he narrates from non-Shami narrators. His teacher here, Rashid bin Dawud Sanani, is Shami, attributed to Sanaa of Damascus, not Sanaa of Yemen.Likewise, Ismail bin Ayyash is corroborated in Tabarani's Musnad Shamiyin (1102), where Abdul-Rahman bin Sulayman bin Abu Jawn corroborates him, narrating from Rashid bin Dawud.