the staff of the Prophet's prayer station

A stick of tamarisk wood from the thicket, fixed in the qibla wall of the Prophet's mosque. The Prophet would hold it in his hand and lean on it when he stood to pray. ²

Then he would turn right and left and say: "Straighten your rows." It was said that it was placed for him when he grew old, and another stick was attached to it. ²

The staff went missing in the time of Umar. It was found with a man of the Ansar in Quba, who had buried it, and termites had eaten it. Umar repaired it and returned it to the mihrab. ²