الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 8, page 239

325. Abaan, from Abdul Rahmaan Bin Abu Abdullah, from Abu Al-Abbas Al-Makky who said: I heard Abu Ja’far (asws) saying that: ‘Umar met Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) and said, ‘You (asws) are the one who recites this Verse: “[68:6] Which of you is afflicted with madness”, applying it to me and my companion (abu Bakr)’. He (asws) said: ‘Shall I (asws) not inform you of the Verse which Descended regarding the Clan of Umayya: “[47:22] But if you held command, you were sure to make mischief in the land and cut off the ties of kinship!”. So he said, ‘You (asws) are lying. The Clan of Umayya establish more ties of kinship than you (asws) do, but you (asws) are most insistent upon enmity to the Clan of Taym (Abu Bakr’s tribe) and Udayy (Umar’s tribe), and the Clan of Umayya’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

326. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Sadaqa, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘Ali (asws) used to stand in the first downpour when it rained, to the extent that his (asws) head, and his (asws) beard, and his (asws) clothes would get wet. So it was said to him (asws), ‘O Amir-ul-Momineen (asws)! Take shelter, take shelter!’ So he (asws) would say that: ‘This is water from near the Throne’. Then he (asws) went on to narrate: ‘Underneath the Throne there is an ocean in which there is water which makes the sustenance of the animals to grow. So if Allah (azwj) Intends that He (azwj) should Make to grow whatever that He (azwj) so Desires to for them as a Mercy for them, Allah (azwj) Reveals to it. So it rains from sky to sky until it comes to the sky of the world to the clouds. And the clouds are at the status of the sieve. Then Allah (azwj) Reveals to the wind to grind it and melt it, dissolving the water. Then it takes it to such and such a place and pours upon it. So that becomes such and such a torrent and other than that. Thus, it rains upon the area which it had been Ordered to. There is no drop from the drops except that there is an Angel with it until he places it in a particular place. There does not descend a drop from the sky except that it is numbered precisely and is of a known weight, except when it was the day of the storm in the era of Noah (as), on that day it poured without measurement or number’. And Abu Abdullah (asws) narrated to me saying: ‘My (asws) father said to me (asws), that Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) said, that the Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Made the cloud to be as a sieve for the rain, and the sleet melts until it becomes water, not harming anything by it. The harm is what you see from the sleet and the lightning as a Wrath from Allah (azwj) Harming whosoever He (azwj) so desires from His (azwj) servants’. Then he (asws) said: ‘Then the Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘Do not point (accuse) the rain or the crescent, for Allah (azwj) Abhors that’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.