Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 50, Hadith 24
حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ، عَنِ السَّائِبِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا مَطَرَتِ السَّمَاءُ يَقُولُ: يَا جَارِيَةُ، أَخْرِجِي سَرْجِي، أَخْرِجِي ثِيَابِي، وَيَقُولُ: {وَنَزَّلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً مُبَارَكًا}.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Bishr ibn al-Hakam related to us: Muhammad ibn Rabi‘ah related to us, from al-Sa’ib ibn ‘Umar, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, from Ibn ‘Abbas, who, whenever rain fell, would say: ‘Young woman, bring out my saddle and bring out my clothes.’ And he would say: ‘We sent down blessed water from the sky.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source word سَرْجِي is rendered literally as “my saddle”; the associated practice may refer to bringing out riding equipment and clothes into the rain.
The Quranic quotation is included without a verse number in the Arabic source.
أَخْرِجِي سَرْجِي
The precise object meant by سرجي in this context is not certain; the direct lexical rendering is “my saddle.”
Does the term here mean a saddle itself or associated riding gear?