He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, supplicated against Mudar. He said: So I came to him and said, "O Messenger of Allah, indeed Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has given you victory, granted you, and answered you, and your people have perished, so supplicate to Allah for them." But he turned away from him. He said: So I said to him, "O Messenger of Allah, indeed Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has given you victory, granted you, and answered you, and your people have perished, so supplicate to Allah for them." So he said: "O Allah, give us rain, abundant, beneficial, widespread, plentiful, not delayed, beneficial, not harmful." It was not but a week or so until they were given rain.

Shu'bah said: In the supplication there is a word I heard from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Salim regarding seeking rain, and in the hadith of Habib, or Amr, from Salim, he said: "I have come to you from a people for whom no stallion stirs, nor does a shepherd prepare provisions for them."