Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Abu Sadiq Al-Naji narrates that Hazrat Sulaiman bin Dawood went out with the people to pray for rain. On the way, they passed by an ant that was lying on its back, with its legs raised towards the sky, and it was supplicating: "O Allah! We too are one of Your creations. We are not at all independent of Your sustenance. Either grant us water or destroy us." So Hazrat Sulaiman said to the people: "Return! You have been given water by the supplication of another."