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musk or any other fragrance, more sweet

smelling than the fragrance of Rasullullah (saas)." 126

Anas bin Malik (r.a) reports:

"I never smelt ambergris or musk as fragrant as the fragrance of
the body of Allah's Messenger (saas) and I never touched brocade
or silk and found it as soft as the body of Allah's Messenger
(saas)." 127

In Qisas al-Anbiya, the Prophet (saas) was described in this way:

"His body was clean and his scent beautiful. Whether or not he
had used scent, his skin always had a lovely scent to it. If some-

one shook hands or conversed with him, or showed his friend-
ship or affection, he would smell that clean scent all day, and if
he laid that sacred hand on a child's head, that child could be
distinguished from other children by that clean scent." 128

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