Ibn Majah

´It was narrated from Hisham bin Ishaq bin ‘Abdullah bin Kinanah that his father said:` “One of the chiefs* sent me to Ibn ‘Abbas to ask him about the prayer for rain. Ibn ‘Abbas said: ‘What kept him from asking me?’ He said: ‘The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out humbly, walking with a humble and moderate gait, imploring, and he performed two Rak’ah as he used to pray for ‘Eid, but he did not give a sermon like this sermon of yours.’”

´It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin Abu Bakr said:` “I heard ‘Abbad bin Tamim narrating to my father that his paternal uncle had seen the Prophet (ﷺ) going out to the prayer place to pray for rain. He faced the Qiblah and turned his cloak around, and prayed two Rak’ah.” (One of the narrators) Muhammad bin Sabbah said: “Sufyan told us something similar, narrating from Yahya bin Sa`eed, from Abu Bakr bin Muhammad bin `Amr bin Hazm. from `Abbad bin Tamim, from his paternal uncle, from the Prophet (ﷺ).” Sufyan narrated that Al-Mas`udi said: “I asked Abu Bakr bin Muhammad bin `Amr: 'Did he turn it upside down or right to left?' He said: 'No, it was right to left.'”

‘With this chain also,’ Ubadah bin Tamim narrated from his uncle (Abdullah bin Zaid, may Allah be pleased with him), and he narrated from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) a similar hadith. In this narration, there is an addition that Sufyan Thawri narrated from Mas’udi, who said: I asked Abu Bakr bin Muhammad bin Amr, “How did he turn the sheet? Did he make the upper part lower, or did he turn the right side to the left?” He said: “No, rather he turned the right side to the left.”

´It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said:` “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went out one day to pray for rain. He led us in praying two Rak’ah without any Adhan or Iqamah, then he addressed us and supplicated to Allah. He turned to face the Qiblah, raising his hands, then he turned his cloak around, putting its right on the left and its left on the right.”