Sayyiduna Jabir bin Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I prayed with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and his prayer was moderate and his sermon was also moderate (that is, neither long nor very short).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver two sermons while standing, and he would sit between the two sermons.

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to always deliver two sermons and would sit between them, and during the sermon he would recite the Qur'an and advise the people.

Husain (bin Abdur Rahman) said: ‘Amarah bin Ruwaybah saw Bishr, the son of Marwan, raising his hands on the pulpit, so he said: May Allah do evil to these two hands. I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) on the pulpit, and he would only gesture with his two fingers (in some versions, it is mentioned that he gestured with one finger).

Husayn bin Abdur Rahman said: ‘Amarah bin Ruwaybah saw Bishr bin Marwan raising his hands for supplication on the pulpit on Friday, so he reproached him and said: I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) on the pulpit, and he did not do like this, rather he would only gesture with his finger, and he gestured with his index finger from his side.

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with both of them) said: Before the pulpit was constructed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to stand by the trunk of a date-palm tree and deliver the sermon. Then, when the pulpit was made (and he moved towards it), that trunk began to cry with a thin sound until we heard its voice. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hand on it, and its sound stopped.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrated that before the pulpit was built, the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver the sermon while leaning against a date-palm trunk. When the pulpit was made and he moved towards it, that trunk began to weep. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) embraced it to his chest, and it became quiet. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If I had not embraced it (i.e., held it to my chest), it would have continued to weep until the Day of Resurrection.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) a narration similar to this.

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When the population in Madinah increased, people would come but could not hear the sermon of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and would return in the same way. So the noble Companions submitted to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): O Prophet of Allah! The people have increased; the one who comes cannot hear your speech. He said: Then do as you wish. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called a boy from among the Ansar, who was a carpenter from the Najjar tribe, and told him to make a pulpit from the wood of the jungle tamarisk. So he made two or three steps. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat on it and began to deliver the sermon. When he did so, the piece of wood by which he used to stand and deliver the sermon began to cry with a thin sound. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to it and placed his blessed hand upon it, and it became quiet.

Dahhak bin Qais asked Sayyiduna Nu'man bin Bashir (may Allah be pleased with them), "Which surah would the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recite after Surah al-Jumu'ah on the day of Jumu'ah?" He replied: He would recite «هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ» .