Rain falls after the Prophet's prayer at al-Hijr

The people awoke with no water and complained of it to the Prophet; he prayed, God sent a cloud and it rained until the people drank their fill and drew what water they needed. In Mahmud ibn Labid's version, a man known for hypocrisy said on seeing it: a passing cloud. ¹

When the people awoke with no water they complained of it to the Prophet; he prayed, and God sent a cloud that rained until the people drank their fill and carried off the water they needed. ²

Ibn Ishaq relates from Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada, from Mahmud ibn Labid, from men of Banu Abd al-Ashhal, that the people used to know the hypocrisy among them — a man knowing it in his brother, father, uncle and clan — yet some shielded others from it. ³

Mahmud reports a man of the hypocrites, well known as such, saying when the cloud rained — in reply to one who asked him "is anything beyond this?" — : a passing cloud. ³

• The judgement of hypocrisy on the man is the narrator's words (Mahmud ibn Labid from men of Banu Abd al-Ashhal); the text does not name the man (p. 166).