Volume 2, Book 13, Number 40:
Narrated Abu Hazim bin Dinar:
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 2 > BOOK 13: FRIDAY PRAYER
Some people went to Sahl bin Sad As-Sa’idi and told him that they had different opinions regard –
ing the wood of the pulpit. They asked him about it and he said, “By Allah, I know of what wood the
pulpit was made, and no doubt I saw it on thy very first day when Allah’s Apostle I took his seat on it.
Allah’s Apostle sent for such and such an Ansari woman (and Sahl mentioned her name) and said to
her, ‘Order your slave-carpenter to prepare for me some pieces of wood (i.e. pulpit) on which I may
sit at the time of addressing the people.’ So she ordered her slave-carpenter and he made it from the
tamarisk of the forest and brought it (to the woman). The woman sent that (pulpit) to Allah’s Apostle
who ordered it to be placed here. Then I saw Allah’s Apostle praying on it and then bowed on it.
Then he stepped back, got down and prostrated on the ground near the foot of the pulpit and again
ascended the pulpit. After finishing the prayer he faced the people and said, ‘I have done this so that
you may follow me and learn the way I pray.’ “