that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to deliver the Friday address while leaning against a palm-trunk before a pulpit was built for him. When the pulpit was made and he moved over to it, the trunk yearned for him; so he came to it, embraced it, and it became still. He then said:
“Had I not embraced it, it would have continued to moan until the Day of Resurrection.”
This chain of transmission fulfils the conditions laid down by Muslim, and it is recorded only by Ibn Mājah (1) through the narration of Ḥammād ibn Salamah.

The sixth narration, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar:
Al-Bukhārī (2) said: “Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr Abū Ghassān narrated to us; Abū Ḥafṣ—whose name is ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, the brother of Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ—narrated to us. He said: I heard Nāfiʿ relate from Ibn ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with them—who said:
‘The Prophet ﷺ used to preach at the foot of a trunk. When the pulpit was constructed he turned to it, whereupon the trunk moaned. He came to it and passed his hand over it.’”
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd said: “ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar related to us; Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ related to us, from Nāfiʿ with this same wording.” The report was likewise transmitted by Abū ʿĀṣim, from Ibn Abī Rawād, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ, and al-Bukhārī mentioned it in this form.
Al-Tirmidhī (3) also recorded it from ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās, from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAmr and Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr Abū Ghassān al-ʿAnbarī (4), both of whom narrated from Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, with the same text, and he said: “A sound, authentic, and rare narration.”
Our teacher, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Mizzī, said in his work Aṭrāf (5): “It was also reported by ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn ʿAlī al-Jahḍamī, Aḥmad ibn Khālid al-Khallāl, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dārimī, among others, all from ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar, from Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ.”
He added: “As for this ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd—namely, the one cited by al-Bukhārī—some hold that he is ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd; and Allah knows best.”
Our teacher further said: “It has been suggested that al-Bukhārī’s wording ‘from Abū Ḥafṣ, whose name is ʿUmar ibn al-ʿAlāʾ’ is an error, and that the correct reading is Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, as found in the narration of al-Tirmidhī.”
I say: This reading is not found in every manuscript; in the copies from which I transcribed, his name is not mentioned at all. Allah knows best.
The ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym (7) also transmitted this ḥadīth—one route from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, and another from Abū ʿĀṣim, from Ibn Abī Rawād—both from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: