the yearning palm-trunk

The trunk of the palm tree against which the Prophet used to preach before the pulpit was made; it yearned for him when he left it. ²

It became known that a piece of wood fixed with lead in the pillar of the noble prayer hall, opposite the Rawda, was a remnant of it. Ibn Jubayr, in his travel account, mentions that people used to kiss a visible piece of it in a pillar and seek blessing by wiping it. ²

Al-Samhudi disputed this and preferred that the piece came from the Standing Staff, not from the trunk. He mentioned that Izz al-Din ibn Jama'a ordered it removed in 855 AH. ²