الجذع الحنّان

الجذع الحنّان

The palm-trunk the Prophet leaned on while preaching before the minbar was made, which yearned when he left it. Later generations popularly held that a lead-fastened wooden piece in the pillar facing the Rawda was a remnant of it — Ibn Jubayr saw people kissing and blessing themselves by a visible piece set in a column — but al-Samhudi disputes this, judging it likelier a remnant of the staff of the prayer station, and records that 'Izz al-Din ibn Jama'a ordered its removal in 855 AH ¹.