ibn Mālik, who said: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would stand on Friday leaning his back against a tree trunk set upright in the mosque, and would address the people. A Roman man came to him and said, ‘Shall I make something for you upon which you may sit while appearing as though you are standing?’ So he made for him a minbar with two steps, and he would sit upon the third. When the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sat upon that minbar, the trunk bellowed like a bull until the mosque shook in grief for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came down from the minbar to it and embraced it while it was bellowing. When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, embraced it, it became still. He then said: ‘By Him in Whose Hand is Muhammad’s soul, had I not embraced it, it would have continued like this until the Day of Resurrection, grieving for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.’ The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then ordered that it be buried.”

I say: Its chain is sound, and it meets Muslim’s criteria. It has a corroborating report from the hadith of Jābir, in abridged form, through three authentic routes from him. It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (3584 and 3585), al-Dārimī (2/366–367), al-Nasāʾī (1/207), Ibn Mājah (1417), and Aḥmad (3/306, 324). There is another from the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, narrated by al-Bukhārī (3583) and Aḥmad (2/23 and 109), and declared authentic by al-Tirmidhī (no. 506).

2175 — “If one who drinks while standing knew what was in his stomach, he would make himself vomit.”

It was narrated by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (19588), and al-Bayhaqī through him (7/282): Maʿmar reported to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet. I say: This chain is interrupted. However, Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad connected it, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah, from Abū Hurayrah, with the same wording. This Zuhayr was Ibn Qumayr al-Marwazī, one of Ibn Mājah’s reliable shaykhs, but al-Manāwī reported