19) i have pondered what came in poetry about the arabs attributing rain to the stars constellation and i found it to be of two types one of them is that they make the stars constellation a name for rain and a time just as they make winter a time for cold and summer a time for heat/ and just as they say about the winter rain alshayti so they attribute it to it because it is a time for it. and whoever among them went to this school of thought and intended this intention in the constellation and said we were rained by the constellation of the pleiades meaning when the constellation appeared there is no harm in that and there is no blame on him in it god willing. and ibn abbas went to this in his saying to the woman whose husband has made her matter
١٩) وقد تدبرت ما جاء فى الشعر من نسبة العرب المطر إلى نوء النجم، فوجدته نوعين أحدهما أن يجعلوا نوء النجم علما للمطر ووقتا ، كما يجعلون الشتاء للبرد وقتا، والقيظ للحر وقتا/ وكما يقولون لمطر الشتاء الشتى ، فينسبونه إليه لأنه وقت له. ومن ذهب منهم إلى هذا المذهب، ونوى فى النوء هذه النية، فقال مطرنا بنوء الثريا يريد حين تبين ٥ ناءت، لم يكن بذلك بأس، ولا عليه فيه إن شاء الله جناح، وإليه ذهب ابن عباس فى قوله للمرأة التى جعل زوجها أمرها