Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33908 — What Allah the Exalted gave Muhammad

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to lean against a trunk while delivering the sermon. When he had a pulpit made, he moved to it, and the trunk began to cry until he took hold of it and embraced it, and it became calm. He said: If I had not embraced it, it would have kept crying until the Day of Resurrection.