Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2094
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ، قَالَ أَتَى رِجَالٌ إِلَى سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ يَسْأَلُونَهُ عَنِ الْمِنْبَرِ، فَقَالَ بَعَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِلَى فُلاَنَةَ ـ امْرَأَةٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهَا سَهْلٌ ـ " أَنْ مُرِي غُلاَمَكِ النَّجَّارَ، يَعْمَلُ لِي أَعْوَادًا أَجْلِسُ عَلَيْهِنَّ إِذَا كَلَّمْتُ النَّاسَ ". فَأَمَرَتْهُ يَعْمَلُهَا مِنْ طَرْفَاءِ الْغَابَةِ ثُمَّ جَاءَ بِهَا، فَأَرْسَلَتْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِهَا، فَأَمَرَ بِهَا فَوُضِعَتْ، فَجَلَسَ عَلَيْهِ.
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Qutayba ibn Said narrated to us: Abd al-Aziz narrated to us, from Abu Hazim, who said: Men came to Sahl ibn Sad asking him about the pulpit. He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent word to a certain woman—a woman whose name Sahl mentioned—saying, “Tell your young carpenter to make some wooden pieces for me to sit on when I address the people.” She instructed him to make them from tamarisk wood from al-Ghaba. He brought them to her, and she sent them to the Messenger of Allah. He ordered them to be set in place, and he sat on them.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source refers to wooden pieces for sitting and does not use the word pulpit in the quoted instruction itself.