Dua to one who snizzes

Source: http://reviveasunnah.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/responding-to-one-who-sneezes/

Responding to one who sneezes

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah (رضي الله عنه) who said that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said,
“If anyone of you sneezes, he should say ‘Al-Hamdulillah’ (Praise be to Allah), and his (Muslim) brother or companion should say to him, ‘Yarhamuk Allah’ (May Allah bestow his Mercy on you). When the latter says ‘Yarhamuk Allah’, the former should say, ‘Yahdikumul-lah wa Yuslih balakum’ (May Allah give you guidance and improve your condition).”

[Bukhari: Book 8,Volume 73, Hadith 243]

Abu Hurayrah also reported in another narration the Messenger of Allah (صلى الله عليه وسلم) saying,
“Six are the rights of a Muslim over another Muslim. It was said to him: Allah’s Messenger, what are these? Thereupon he said: When you meet him, offer him greetings;when he invites you to a feast accept it. when he seeks your council give him, and when he sneezes and says:” All praise is due to Allah,” you say ‘Yarhamuk Allah’ (may Allah show mercy to you) ; and when he fails ill visit him; and when he dies follow his bier.

[Muslim: Book 26, Hadith 5379]

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, “Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning, so if someone sneezes and then praises Allah, then it is obligatory on every Muslim who heard him, to say: May Allah be merciful to you (‘Yarhamuk Allah’). But as regards yawning, it is from Satan, so one must try one’s best to stop it, if one says ‘Ha’ when yawning, Satan will laugh at him.”

[Bukhari: Book 8, Volume 73, Hadith 24]

Dua during rainfall

Source: http://reviveasunnah.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/supplication-during-rainfall/

Supplication during rainfall

It is narrated on the authority of Aisha (radiAllahu anha) who said that when the Messenger of Allah (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) saw rain he would say:

Allahuma sayyiban naafi’an
(Oh Allah make it a beneficial rain cloud )

[al Bukhari 1032]

It is also from the Sunnah to supplicate to Allah during the rain, as this is one of the times when your supplication is more likely to be answered.

Narrated Sahel Ibn Sa’ad (radiAllahu anhu): that the Messenger of Allah (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) said: ‘Two will not be rejected, Supplication when the Adhan (call of prayer) is being called, and at the time of the rain’.

[Al-Hakim 2: 114, and Abu Dawud #2540, ibn Majah]

‘Seek the response to your du’as when the armies meet, and the prayer is called, and when rain falls’

[reported by Imam al-Shafi' in al-Umm, al-Sahihah #1469]