Qutaybah reported from Hatim ibn Isma’il who reported from Hisham ibn Ishaq (who was Ibn Abdullah ibn Kinanah) who reported from his father who said that Walid ibn Uqbah, the Amir o Madinah, sent him toSayyidina Ibn Abbas (RA) to ask him about the (salah of) istisqa of Allah’s Messenger. So, he went to him. He said, “Indeed, Allah’s Messenger went out without adormment (in old garments), humbly and beseechingly till he came to the place of prayer. He did not deliver a sermon like your sermons, but he did not cease to make petition being humble, and raising the takbir he prayed two raka’at as are offered onEid days.”
[Ahmed2039, Abu Dawud 1165, Nisai 1505, Ibn e Majah 1266]
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