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Pillar of the Weeping Palm

أسطوانة الجذع · الحنّانة

A feature within · The Prophet's Mosque

Significance

The site of the palm trunk the Prophet ﷺ used to lean on when giving khuṭba, before the pulpit was made. When he moved to the new pulpit, the trunk was heard weeping like a she-camel. He descended and touched it and it grew still — a mass-transmitted sign of prophethood.