Is it proven that ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote a letter to the Nile in Egypt so that its water would flow by Allah’s leave?

I want to know the authenticity of the story about Umar writing a letter to River Nile. It seems to me as illogic, for the Qur'aan and the Saheeh Sunnah do not teach such thing. Also thatfor drought, Salah Ul Istisqa is authentically established.
Praise be to Allaah.
Ibn Katheer (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
It was narrated to us via Ibn Luhay‘ah from Qays ibn al-Hajjaaj from someone who told him: When Egypt was conquered, its people came to ‘Amr ibn al-‘Aas and said to him: O Ameer, this Nile of ours is used to something and cannot flow unless it is done. He said, What is that? They said: On the twelfth night of this month, we take a young girl from her parents, and we placate her parents, then we dress her in jewellery and the finest garments there can be, then we throw herinto this Nile.
‘Amr said to them: This is something that cannot happen in Islam; Islam erases that which came before it (of bad customs).
So they stayed for a while,during which the Nile did not flow at all, neither a little nor a lot, until they thought of leaving. Then ‘Amr wrote to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, telling him about that. He wrote to him, saying: You did the right thing. I am sending you a piece of paper with my letter; throw it into the Nile.
When his letter came, ‘Amr took the piece of paper on which was written:
“From the slave of Allah ‘Umar, Ameer al-Mu’mineen, to the Nile of the people of Egypt.
To proceed: If you only flow on your own initative, then do not flow, for we have no needof you. But if you only flow on the command of Allah, the One, the Subduer, and He is the One Who causes you to flow, then we ask Allah, may He be exalted, to make you flow.”
He threw the paper in the Nile and by Saturday morning, Allah had causedthe Nile to flow (to a depth or width of) sixteencubits in one night, and Allah put an end to that custom of the people of Egypt until today.
End quote from al-Bidaayah wa’n-Nihaayah, 7/114-115
Similar reports were also narrated by Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam in Futooh Misr, p. 165; al-Laalkaa’i in Sharh I‘tiqaad Ahl as-Sunnah, 6/463; Ibn ‘Asaakir in Tareekh Dimashq, 44/336; Abu’sh-Shaykh in al-‘Azamah, 4/1424, via Ibn Luhay‘ah.
This is a da‘eef isnaad thatis not saheeh, and this report cannot be proven with such an isnaad. Ibn Luhay‘ah – whose full name was ‘Abdullah ibn Luhay‘ah ibn ‘Uqbah – is da ‘eef as he used to get mixed up, and in addition to that he is mudallis. See at-Tahdheeb, 5/327-33; Mizaan al-I‘tidaal, 2/475-484
Qays ibn al-Hajjaaj is sadooq, from the sixth level of hadeeth narrators(tabaqah) according to al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar; they are the ones who it is not proven that they met any of the Sahaabah. See: Taqreeb at-Tahdheeb, 1/25
Sometimes he narrated it as a mursal report and sometimes he narrated it from the one who told him, but the one who toldhim is majhool and not known.
So the report is da‘eef (weak) and is not saheeh (sound)
If this story were true, everyone would know about it and it would be well known, and it would have been widely narrated through confirmed isnaads, because it is an importantand significant event, the like of which should not be ignored; rather an incident less significant than this would not be overlooked by historians and narrators.
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1a] Bin Laden’s death, anything untold?

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Readers worldwide would prefer to learn about some truth elements of a “fairy tale” which would have otherwise been concealedfrom the public for good./ - - - :-> Transtors: 1.http://free-translation.imtranslator.net/lowres.asp 2.http://translate.google.com/m?twu=1&hl=en&vi=m&sl=auto&tl=en

1] Bin Laden’s death, anything untold?

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Isn’t it that President Barack Obama has a skeleton in his cupboard?
A U.S. serviceman, who took part in Osama Bin Laden’s elimination on May 2, 2011, now intends to publish a book in which he will reveal somedetails of this operation.
However, the news aboutthe book’s possible release was met with great dissatisfaction by the U.S. authorities, both civil and military. The reason is that some details of Bin Laden’s elimination are still kept secret.
The Obama administration quickly took notice of the promise, or threat, by a former US special operations soldier who was in the room when Osama Bin Laden was killed to "set the record straight" in a first-hand and unvetted account of the mission to get the al-Qaida leader to be published just weeks before the presidential election.
Representatives of the Republican Party, of course, used this scandal as another chance to criticize their perpetual opponents, the Democrats. Republicans said that Democrats were trying to create a better image of themselves by reminding to the world once again that it was them, Democrats, who initiated the elimination of the world’s most dreadful terrorist.
The publisher, a subsidiary of Penguin, hassaid little about the book, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden, other than thatthe author is a former member of Navy Seal Team Six who "was one of the first men through the door on the third floorof the terrorist leader's hideout and was present at his death".
It promises a "blow-by-blow narrative of the assault" beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended the author's life straight"through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden's death". Penguin said the account is "an essential piece of modern history".
But the book will land in the midst of an election inwhich Republicans, concerned that Bin Laden's death has neutralized attempts to paint Barack Obama as weak on national security,are accusing the presidentof overstating his role in the raid for political advantage.
No Easy Day is to be published under a pen name, Mark Owen. But Fox News said it has established the true identity of the author, naming him and saying he is a 36-year-old from Alaska who also took partin a Seal raid in 2009 that rescued the captain of an American merchant ship seized by Somali pirates. He retired from the military last year.
The book has been a closely held secret in the publishing world, and the announcement that it willbe released on September11, the 11th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on the US, caught the Pentagon and intelligenceservices off guard.
There are strong reasons to suppose that the author of the new book, who does not reveal his name but hides under a pseudonym, may repeat the fate of John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent, who isnow persecuted by the USauthorities after he has disclosed a shocking truthabout the methods of interrogation, which US special services sometimes apply.
John Kiriakou used to be aCIS agent and took part inmany operations, mainly in the Middle East.
In 2010, John Kiriakou published a book titled “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s Waron Terror”, in which he revealed even more abouttortures applied by the CIA to suspects in terrorism. The CIA has tried hard to prevent this book from being published. When it was published after all, the CIAinitiated a lawsuit againstJohn Kiriakou. His case is still being investigated. The man, who was once awarded with a Counterterrorism Service Medal, is now charged of endeavor on national security.
In this connection, the man who hides under the pseudonym of Mark Owenis also playing a very riskygame. Although no lawsuit has been issued against him so far, it may be issued any moment to punish the revealer of unwanted truth.
After all, President Obama’s administration has applied a law on espionage, which was adopted back in 1917 andwhich is still in force, 6 times within the time Mr. Obama has been in power. None of the previous U.S. administrations has applied this law so many times as the current one.
The book’s editors claim that its author, who writes under the pseudonym of Mark Owen, was one of the firstto rush into Bin Laden’s hiding-place several moments before the world’s greatest terrorist was killed, and who witnessed Bin Laden’s death with his own eyes.
Mark Owen has a long record of service in the U.S. special services. However, judging by several previous similar cases, this may not save him from persecutions. The US authorities have already showed several times how intolerant theymay be against those who try to disclose things that the authorities wouldprefer to keep secret, despite President Obama’smultiple words about the need for transparency of the government’s actions and freedom of speech.:->
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Over 50 die in floodsin India and Pakistan

More than 50 people havedied in India and Pakistandue to floods caused
by heavy downpours. Thousands of people wereleft homeless, and
hundreds were evacuated.
Search-and-rescue operations are underway in the disaster zone. The
number of victims is likelyto increase.