The Beloved Prophet’s ﷺ compassion towards plants

The Final Messenger of Allah ﷺ, used to lean against this stump while delivering sermons. Then, a wooden pulpit was made for him ﷺ. It was Friday, and the Holy Prophet ﷺ, entered the mosque and ascended the pulpit. Suddenly, the sound of someone crying was heard (like a child weeping with great pain). Upon investigation, it was the same stump of dry trunk of the date palm tree against which the Final Messenger ﷺ used to lean while delivering sermons. It was weeping profusely in separation from the Beloved Prophet ﷺ. The Beloved Prophet ﷺ, could not bear to see its weeping. He ﷺ descended from the blessed pulpit, went near the stump, placed his hand upon it, and, as mentioned in Bukhari Sharif, the Holy Prophet ﷺ, embraced the stump to console it. What happened then? Just as a mother embraces a crying child, and the child starts to softly sob, the stump also began to softly sob until it became silent. Whenever there used to be drought, people would use the Holy Prophet’s ﷺ waseela [as a means (of intercession)] in their supplications, and their prayers would be answered, or the Beloved Prophet ﷺ himself would pray, and rain of mercy would descend, reviving the dead earth, and vegetation would grow.