Bayhaqi 6426 — Praying for rain through one whose supplication

Salim narrates from his father (Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Often I would recall the poet's verse while looking at the face of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who would be standing on the pulpit asking for rain, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not come down from the pulpit before every gutter was gushing, and the poet's words would come to my mind:
'Wa abyada yustasqal-ghamamu bi-wajhihi, thimalul-yatama 'ismatun lil-aramil'
"The fair-complexioned one through whose blessed face rain is sought from the clouds; he is the refuge of orphans and the support of widows." And he said that these are the words of Abu Talib.