Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand for the sermon on Friday, he would lean his back against a trunk in the mosque. A Roman man came to him and said, "Shall I make something for you on which, even if you are sitting, it will appear as if you are standing?" So he made a pulpit, on the first two steps of which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would stand, and on the third he would sit. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat on it, that trunk began to moan like a bull in the sorrow of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the mosque began to resound. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to it and embraced it, and it became silent. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Him in Whose hand is my soul, if I had not embraced it, it would have continued to cry in the separation of Allah's Messenger until the Day of Resurrection." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered and the trunk was buried.