"Narrated `Abbad bin Tamim's uncle:\n\nThe Prophet (p.b.u.h) went out to offer the Istisqa' prayer and turned (and put on) his cloak inside out.\n\nNarrated `Abdullah bin Zaid:\n\nThe Prophet (ﷺ) turned his cloak inside out on Istisqa.\n\nNarrated `Abdullah bin Zaid:\n\nThe Prophet (ﷺ) went towards the Musalla and invoked Allah for rain. He faced the Qibla and wore his cloak inside out, and offered two rak`at.\n\nNarrated `Abdullah bin Dinar:\n\nMy father said, \"I heard Ibn `Umar reciting the poetic verses of Abu Talib: And a white (person) (i.e. the Prophet) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows.\" Salim's father (Ibn `Umar) said, \"The following poetic verse occurred to my mind while I was looking at the face of the Prophet (p.b.u.h) while he was praying for rain. He did not get down till the rain water flowed profusely from every roof-gutter: And a white (person) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows . . . And these were the words of Abu Talib.\"\n\nNarrated Anas:\n\nWhenever drought threatened them, `Umar bin Al-Khattab, used to ask Al-Abbas bin `Abdul Muttalib to invoke Allah for rain. He used to say, \"O Allah! We used to ask our Prophet to invoke You for rain, and You would bless us with rain, and now we ask his uncle to invoke You for rain. O Allah ! Bless us with rain.\"(1) And so it would rain."