We travelled with the Prophet ﷺ until we halted in a wide valley.(1) The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went off to relieve himself, and I followed him carrying a small vessel of water. He looked about but found nothing with which to screen himself. There were, however, two trees on the valley’s edge. He went to one of them, grasped a branch and said,

“Come to me, by Allah’s leave.”

It moved with him like a bridled camel that meekly follows its driver, until he reached the other tree. He grasped a branch of that one and said,

“Come to me, by Allah’s leave.”

It too moved with him like a bridled camel that meekly follows its driver. When he came to the midpoint between them, he brought the two together—that is, he drew them into one—and said,

“Join over me, by Allah’s leave,”

and they joined.
Jābir said: I withdrew quickly,(2) fearing he might sense how near I was and move farther away. I sat talking to myself, then glanced up and saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ approaching, while the two trees had separated again, each standing on its trunk. I saw the Messenger of Allah pause and signal with his head like this(3)—to the right and to the left.

He related the remainder of the report concerning the water and the fish that the sea had cast ashore,(4) as mentioned earlier. To Allah belong all praise and bounty.

Another ḥadith
Imām Aḥmad(5) said: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Abū Sufyān—Ṭalḥah ibn Nāfiʿ—from Anas, who said:
Gabriel came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ one day while he was sitting, saddened and stained with blood from a blow dealt by some of the Meccans. He asked, “What has happened to you?” He replied, “These people have done such-and-such to me.” Gabriel said, “Would you like me to show you a sign?” “Yes,” he answered. Gabriel looked toward a tree on the far side of the valley and said, “Call that tree.” He called it, and it came walking until it stood before him. He said, “Command it to return.” He commanded it, and it returned to its place. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “That is enough for me.”

This chain of transmission meets Muslim’s criteria, and it is reported only by Ibn Mājah(6) through Muḥammad ibn Ṭarīf from Abū Muʿāwiyah.

Another ḥadith
Al-Bayhaqī transmitted, through the narration of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Abū Rāfiʿ, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: