CHAPTER: On Taking Minbars.
Abu Hazim bin Dinar said: People came to Sahl bin Saad al-Saeedi, when they were doubtful about the kind of wood of the pulpit (in the mosque of the Prophet). They asked him about it. He said: By Allah, I know (the wood) of which it was made; I saw it the first day when it was placed there, and the first day when the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sat on it. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sent for a woman whom Sahl named and asked her: Order your boy, the carpenter, to construct for me a wooden pulpit so that I sit on it when I deliver a speech to the people. So she ordered him and he made a pulpit of a wood called tarfa taken from al-Ghabah (a place at a distance of nine miles from Madina). He brought it to her. She sent it to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He ordered and that was placed here. I saw the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم praying on it: he said: Allah is most great ; he then bowed while he was on it; then he returned and prostrated in the root of the pulpit; he then returned (to the pulpit). When he finished (the prayer), he addressed himself to the people and said: O people, I did this so that you may follow me and know my prayer.
Ibn Umar said: When the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم became fat, Tamim al-Dari said to him: Should I make for you pulpit, Messenger of Allah, that will bear the burden of your body ? He said: Yes. So he made a pulpit consisting of two steps.