(3) CHAPTER. Request of the people to the Imam to offer the Istisqa prayer and invoke Allah for rain during drought.
Narrated `Abdullah bin Dinar: My father said, I heard Ibn `Umar reciting the poetic verses of Abu Talib: And a white (person) (i.e. the Prophet) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows.
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