Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Musa ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir informed us; Saʿid ibn al-Bannaʾ informed us; Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Busri informed us; Abu Tahir al-Mukhlis narrated to us; Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi narrated to us; Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us; Mubarak ibn Fadala narrated to us, from al-Hasan, from Anas ibn Malik, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to deliver the Friday sermon beside a wooden trunk, leaning his back against it. When the number of worshippers increased, he said, ‘Build me a pulpit with two steps.’

When he mounted the pulpit to preach, the trunk yearned for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I was in the mosque and heard the trunk crying like a bereaved she-camel. It went on weeping until he came down to it, embraced it, and it fell silent.

Whenever al-Hasan related this ḥadith he would weep, then say, ‘Servants of Allah, the piece of wood longed for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ out of yearning for him; you are even more deserving of longing to meet him.’

This is a ḥasan, singular ḥadith (1); I have not encountered any chain from al-Hasan more elevated than this—apart from one other report which I shall cite.

Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Hamadhani informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad, the scribe, informed us; al-Urmawi, Muhammad al-Taraʾifi, and Abu Ghalib ibn al-Dayyah likewise said: Abu Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslimah informed us; Abu al-Fadl ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Zuhri informed us; Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Firyabi narrated to us; Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us; Mubarak ibn Fadala narrated to us:

Al-Hasan explained this verse: “Have you seen the one who takes his own desire as his god?” (al-Jathiyah 45:23)

(1) All the transmitters are trustworthy, but al-Mubarak reports it with an ‘an‘ana (i.e., without explicitly stating that he heard it directly). Ahmad also recorded it in the Musnad, 3/226, through the chain: Hashim → al-Mubarak → al-Hasan. The episode of the palm-trunk’s moaning is soundly established through several Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, including the hadith of Jabir in al-Bukhari 2/323 and al-Nasa’i 3/102, and the hadith of Ibn ‘Umar in al-Bukhari 6/331–332 and al-Tirmidhi no. 505.
مُوْسَى بنُ عَبْدِ القَادِرِ، أَنْبَأَنَا سَعِيْدُ بنُ البَنَّاءِ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو القَاسِمِ بنُ البُسْرِيِّ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ المُخَلِّصُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو القَاسِمِ البَغَوِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بنُ فَرُّوْخٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بنُ فَضَالَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا الحَسَنُ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ يَخْطُبُ يَوْمَ الجُمُعَةِ إِلَى جَنْبِ خَشَبَةٍ؛ يُسْنِدُ ظَهْرَهُ إِلَيْهَا، فَلَمَّا كَثُرَ النَّاسُ، قَالَ: (ابْنُوا لِي مِنْبَراً لَهُ عَتَبَتَانِ) . فَلَمَّا قَامَ عَلَى المِنْبَرِ يَخْطُبُ، حَنَّتِ الخَشَبَةُ إِلَى رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ. قَالَ: وَأَنَا فِي المَسْجِدِ، فَسَمِعْتُ الخَشَبَةَ تَحِنُّ حَنِيْنَ الوَالِهِ، فَمَا زَالَتْ تَحِنُّ حَتَّى نَزَلَ إِلَيْهَا، فَاحْتَضَنَهَا، فَسَكَنَتْ. وَكَانَ الحَسَنُ إِذَا حَدَّثَ بِهَذَا الحَدِيْثِ، بَكَى، ثُمَّ قَالَ: يَا عِبَادَ اللهِ، الخَشَبَةُ تَحِنُّ إِلَى رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ شَوْقاً إِلَيْهِ، فَأَنْتُم أَحَقُّ أَنْ تَشْتَاقُوا إِلَى لِقَائِهِ. هَذَا حَدِيْثٌ حَسَنٌ، غَرِيْبٌ (١) ، مَا وَقَعَ لِي مِنْ رِوَايَةِ الحَسَنِ أَعْلَى مِنْهُ، سِوَى حَدِيْثٍ آخَرَ، سَأَسُوْقُهُ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ إِسْحَاقَ الهَمْدَانِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا الفَتْحُ بنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الكَاتِبُ، أَنْبَأَنَا الأُرْمَوِيُّ، وَمُحَمَّدٌ الطَّرَائِفِيُّ، وَأَبُو غَالِبٍ بنُ الدَّايَةِ، قَالُوا: أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ بنُ المُسْلِمَةِ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو الفَضْلِ عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الزُّهْرِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا جَعْفَرُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الفِرْيَابِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ بنُ فَرُّوْخٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُبَارَكُ بنُ فَضَالَةَ: حَدَّثَنَا الحَسَنُ فِي هَذِهِ الآيَةِ: ﴿أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَهَهُ هَوَاهُ﴾
(١) رجاله ثقات، لكن مباركا عنعن. وأخرجه أحمد في المسند ٣ / ٢٢٦ من طريق هاشم عن المبارك عن الحسن. وحنين الجذع ثابت عن غير واحد من أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ، منها حديث جابر عند البخاري ٢ / ٣٢٣، والنسائي ٣ / ١٠٢، وحديث ابن عمر عند البخاري ٦ / ٣٣١ و٣٣٢، والترمذي (٥٠٥) .

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