Abbad b. Tamim Mazini heard his uncle, who was one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), as saying:
The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) went out one day in order to pray for rain. He turned his back towards people, supplicated before Allah, facing towards Qibla, and turned his mantle round and then observed two rak'ahs of prayer.