Hadith 128

And it is informed to me by the sheykh Muhammad Bin Idrees, by a connected chain to Al Hassan Bin Jamhour Al Ammy, from his father, from Al Ahmad Bin Quteybah, from Salih Bin Kisan, from Abdul Abdullah Bin Rowman, from Yazeed Bin Al Saiq, from Umar Bin Kharjah, from Urfutah who said, ‘While I was in an area of Makkah when a caravan came from the top of Najd until it came near the Kabah, and there was a boy who threw himself away from an old camel until he came to the Kabah and attached with its curtains. Then he called out: ‘O Lord-azwj of the Building (Kabah), Shelter me! ’ An old man of handsome physique stood up to him, upon him was glory of the kings, and dignity of the wise ones. He said, ‘What is your concern, O boy? ’ He said: ‘My father has died and I am young, and this sheykh of Al-Najd has enslaved me, and I had heard that there is a House for Allah-azwj, preventing from the injustice’. The man from Najd came and went on to drag him and freeing the curtain of the Kabah away from his hand, and Quraysh sheltered him and the man from Najd went away, and had cupped his hands. Umar Bin Kharjah said, ‘When I heard the report, I said, ‘There is a glorious occupation for this old man. So I sorted out my ride to around Tihama until I arrived at Al-Bat’ha, and the vegetation had dried up and the dogs were barking, and over there Quraysh had formed a circle and voices of theirs had been raised. A speaker was saying, ‘Seek shelter with Al-Laat and Al-Uzza! (two idols)’. And a speaker was saying, ‘But seek shelter with Manaat (and Idol), the other third! ’
A man from their gathering called Waraqah Bin Nowfal, and uncle of Khadeeja-asws daughter of Khuwaylid stood up and he said, ‘Among you all is a remnant of Ibrahim-as and a descent of Ismail-as’. They said, ‘It is as if you mean Abu Talib-asws’. He said, ‘He-as is that! ’ They stood in their entirety to go to him-as and I stood up along with them. They said, ‘O Abu Talib-asws! There is the drought in the valley and the servants are dried up, so come and pray for us for the rain’. He-as said: ‘Wait for the setting of the sun and blowing of the wind’. When the sun sent or almost, Abu Talib-asws went out, and around him-as were boys from the Clan of Abdul Muttalib-asws, and in their midst was a boy, an adolescent of theirs, as if he was a bright sun emerging from a dark cloud. He came until he placed his back to the Kabah in their shelter, and he gestured with his fingers and beseeched. The boys were around him and there was no cloud in the sky. The clouds started coming from over there and from over there until they thickened, and formed layers, and darkened, and there was thunder and lightning, and the valley burst forth by it. So, due to that, Abu Talib-asws said in praise of the Prophet-saww: ‘And the white cloud quenched by his-saww direction’ – up to the end of the couplets’’. [204]