Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: Prayer of Sulayman AS for rain حَنَانٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ عَبْدٍ صَالِحٍ (عليه السلا٠) قَالَ إِنَّ النَّاسَ أَصَابَهُ٠ْ قَحْطٌ شَدِيدٌ عَلَى عَهْدِ سُلَيْ٠َانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ (عليه٠) فَشَكَوْا ذَلِكَ إِلَيْهِ وَ طَلَبُوا إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَسْتَسْقِيَ لَهُ٠ْ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ٠ْ إِذَا صَلَّيْتُ الْغَدَاةَ ٠َّا صَلَّى الْغَدَاةَ ٠َّا أَنْ كَانَ فِي بَعْضِ الطَّرِيقِ إِذَا هُوَ بِنَ٠ْلَةٍ رَافِعَةٍ يَدَهَا إِلَى السَّ٠َاءِ وَاضِعَةٍ قَدَ٠َيْهَا إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ هِيَ تَقُولُ اللَّهُ٠َّ إِنَّا خَلْقٌ ٠ِنْ خَلْقِكَ وَ لَا غِنَى بِنَا عَنْ رِزْقِكَ فَلَا تُهْلِكْنَا بِذُنُوبِ بَنِي آدَ٠َ قَالَ فَقَالَ سُلَيْ٠) ارْجِعُوا فَقَدْ سُقِيتُ٠ْ قَالَ فَسُقُوا فِي ذَلِكَ الْعَا٠344.

Hanaan, from Abu Al-Khattab, who has said: Abd Salih (asws) (7 (th) Imam (asws)) having said: ‘The people were affected by severe drought during the era of Suleiman Bin Dawood (as). So they complained about that to him (as), and sought from him (as) that he (as) should Pray for them’. So he (as) said to them: ‘When I (as) have Prayed the morning Prayer, I (as) will come with you’. So when he (as) had Prayed the morning Prayer, he (as) went and they went (with him (as)).

So when they were on one of the roads, there was an ant there which had raised its hand to the sky, and placed its feet upon the earth, and it was saying, ‘Our Allah (azwj)! We are also creatures from Your (azwj) creatures, and we are not needless of Your (azwj) sustenance, so do not Destroy us for the sins committed by the children of Adam (as)’. So Suleiman said: ‘Return! You shall be quenched by others (in other ways)’.

So they were quenched in that year the like of which they had never been quenched at all’. ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/215)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)