Jabir, in his chain of transmission, says: “God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) used to lean against a wooden pole called the palm trunk while delivering the sermon in the mosque. The pole could not endure it when the pulpit was made and the Messenger (UWBP) used that for the sermon, and it began to moan and wail like a pregnant camel.” In his narration, Anas says: “It moaned like a water- buffalo  causing the mosque  to tremble.” In his narration,  Sahl b. Sa‘d says: “The people started weeping and crying when the pole was moaning.”  In his narration, Ubayy b. Ka‘b says: “It wept so much it split.”  While in another  narration,[154] the Noble Messenger (UWBP) said: “It is weeping at being separated from the recitation of  God’s  names  and  the  mentioning  of  God  during  the  sermon.”  Still  another narration[155] reports that God’s Messenger (UWBP) said: “If I had not embraced and consoled it, it would have wept until Doomsday at being separated from God’s Messenger.” In his narration, Burayda reports: “When the pole began to moan, God’s Messenger (UWBP) put his hand on it and said, ‘If you wish, I will return you to the grove you came from; your roots will grow and you will flourish; you will produce new fruits. Or if you wish, I will plant you in Paradise, and God’s friends, the saints, will  eat  of  your  fruit.’  He  then  listened  to  the  pole.  The  people  behind  God’s Messenger (UWBP) could hear it as it spoke, saying: ‘Plant me in Paradise, where there is no decay, so that Almighty God’s beloved servants may eat of my fruit.’ The Messenger (UWBP) said: ‘I will,’ and added: ‘It has preferred the eternal realm to that of transitoriness.’” Abu Ishaq Isfarani, one of the great authorities on theology, narrated: “God’s Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) did not go to the pole, but it came to him, at his command.

[145] Bukhari, Manaqib, 25; Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Jum’a, 10; Ibn Maja, Iqamat al-Salat, 199; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6; Salat, 202; Musnad, i, 249, 267, 363; iii, 226.

[145] Bukhari, Manaqib, 25; Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Jum’a, 10; Nasa’i, Jum’a, 17; Ibn Maja, Iqamat al- Salat, 199; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6 (3 different lines from Jabir); Salat, 202; Musnad, iii, 293, 295, 306, 324.

[147] Bukhari, Manaqib, 25; Tirmidhi, Jum^a, 10; Tirmidhi (Tahqiq: Ahmad Shakir), no: 505; Manaqib, 6; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6.

[148] Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Jum’a, 10; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6; Salat, 202; Musnad, i, 249, 363.

[149] Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Jum’a, 10; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6; Salat, 202; al-Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa’, iii, 62.

[150] Darimi, Muqaddima, 6.

[151] Tirmidhi, Jum’a, 10; Ibn Maja, Iqamat al-Salat, 199; Darimi, Muqaddima, 6; Musnad, 139; al- Khafaji, Sharh al-Shifa, iii, 62; al-Mubarakfuri, Tuhfat al-Ahwazi, iii, 22.

[152] Darimi, Muqaddima, 6.

[153] Tirmidhi, Manaqib, 6; Jum’a, 10.

[154] See, Bukhari, Manaqib, 25.

[155] See, Darimi, Muqaddima, 6.