Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 1417

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بِشْرٍ، بَكْرُ بْنُ خَلَفٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي نَضْرَةَ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ يَقُومُ فِي أَصْلِ شَجَرَةٍ - أَوْ قَالَ إِلَى جِذْعٍ - ثُمَّ اتَّخَذَ مِنْبَرًا ‏.‏ قَالَ فَحَنَّ الْجِذْعُ - قَالَ جَابِرٌ - حَتَّى سَمِعَهُ أَهْلُ الْمَسْجِدِ حَتَّى أَتَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَمَسَحَهُ فَسَكَنَ ‏.‏ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لَوْ لَمْ يَأْتِهِ لَحَنَّ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ‏.‏

Translation

Abu Bishr Bakr ibn Khalaf narrated to us; Ibn Abi ‘Adi narrated to us, from Sulayman al-Taymi, from Abu Nadrah, from Jabir ibn Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stand at the base of a tree—or, he said, by a trunk. Then he had a minbar made. Jabir said: The trunk moaned until the people in the mosque heard it, until the Messenger of Allah came to it and stroked it, and it became still. Some of them said, ‘Had he not come to it, it would have continued to moan until the Day of Resurrection.’