Sayyidina Sawad ibn ‘Amr al-Qari al-Answari’s (r.a.) Wish
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu ‘Umar Yusuf ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abd al-Barr ( r.a. ) related, in his Isti’ab fi Ma’rifat asw-Swahabah , that the Prophet ( s.a.w. ), after forbidding two or three times the use of khaluq , a kind of perfume mixed with saffron, and finding that Sayyidina Sawad ibn ‘Amr al-Qari al-Answari ( r.a. ) was wearing it, nudged him in the mid-section with a jaridah , palm-tree stalk, and scratched him. The latter asked for reparation; when the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) bared his own belly to him, he jumped and kissed the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) belly. Shaykh Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ishaq’s ( r.a. ) version in the Sirah mentions that Sayyidina Sawad ( r.a. ) was standing in the ranks of the Companions of Badr ( r.a. ) at the time of this incident. The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) was arranging the ranks with his miqra’ah , switch, with the words, “Align yourself with the others,” and he nudged Sayyidina Sawad’s ( r....