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]