those who seek help from the dead instead of Allāh, and He is the one who said: "Indeed, those you call upon besides Allāh are servants like you. So call upon them and let them respond to you, if you should be truthful. Do they have feet by which they walk? Or do they have hands by which they strike? Or do they have eyes by which they see? Or do they have ears by which they hear?" (Al-Aʿrāf, 7:194-195). And He said: "And those you call upon besides Him do not possess [even] a membrane of a date seed. If you call upon them, they do not hear your supplication; and if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection they will deny your association. And none can inform you like [one] Acquainted [with all matters]." (Fāṭir, 35:13-14).

"There is no year with more rain than another, but Allāh distributes it among His creation [as He wills]. Then he recited: 'And We have certainly distributed it among them [that they might be reminded]' (Al-Furqān, 25:50) [the verse]." It was narrated by Ibn Jarīr in "Tafsīr" (19/15) and al-Ḥākim (2/403) through the chain of Sulaymān al-Taymī, who heard al-Ḥasan ibn Muslim narrating to Ṭāwūs from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: He mentioned it, and the context is his, and likewise the second addition in a narration, and the first addition is from al-Ḥākim, who said: "Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and it is as they said. And it has a corroborating narration reported by Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, who heard Abū Juḥayfah say: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn