Hazrat Jabir narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver the sermon while leaning against the trunk of a date-palm tree. So, an Ansari woman said, "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I have a slave carpenter; should I not order him to make a pulpit for you?" He replied, "Why not?" So she had a pulpit made. When Friday came, the Prophet delivered the sermon from the pulpit. The trunk which he used to lean against began to weep like a child. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that it began to weep because the remembrance (dhikr) had ceased to be made near it.