Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 1415

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ خَلاَّدٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ أَبِي عَمَّارٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، ‏.‏ وَعَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ يَخْطُبُ إِلَى جِذْعٍ فَلَمَّا اتَّخَذَ الْمِنْبَرَ ذَهَبَ إِلَى الْمِنْبَرِ فَحَنَّ الْجِذْعُ فَأَتَاهُ فَاحْتَضَنَهُ فَسَكَنَ ‏.‏ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ لَوْ لَمْ أَحْتَضِنْهُ لَحَنَّ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Abu Bakr ibn Khallad al-Bahili narrated to us; Bahz ibn Asad narrated to us; Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ‘Ammar ibn Abi ‘Ammar, from Ibn Abbas; and from Thabit, from Anas, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to preach while standing by a tree trunk. When he took the minbar, he went to it, and the trunk moaned. He came to it and embraced it, and it became still. He said, ‘Had I not embraced it, it would have continued moaning until the Day of Resurrection.’