Hadith 3008 Part C

We went on till we came to Jabir b. Abdullah in the mosque and he was busy in observing prayer in one cloth which he had joined at its opposite ends. I made my way through the people till I sat between him and the Qibla and I said : May Allah have mercy upon you. Do you observe prayer with one cloth on your body whereas your mantle is lying at your side ? He pointed me with his hand towards my breast just like this and he separated his fingers and bent them in the shape of a bow. And (he said) : I thought that a fool like you should come to me so that he should see me as I do and he should then also do like it. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came to us in this very mosque and he had in his hand the twig of the palm-tree and he saw mucus towards the Qibla of the mosque and he erased it with the help of the twig. He then came to us and said : Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him ? We were afraid. He then again said : Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him ? We were afraid. He again said : Who amongst you likes that Allah should turn His face away from him ? We said : Allah's Messenger , none of us likes it. And he said : If one amongst you stands for prayer , Allah , the Exalted and Glorious , is before him he should not spit in front of him , or on his right side , but should spit on his left side beneath his left foot and if he is impelled to do so all of a sudden (in spite of himself) he should then spit in his cloth and fold it in some part of it. (and he further said : ) Bring some sweet-smelling thing. A young man who belonged to our tribe stood up , went and brought scent in his palm. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took that and applied it to the end of that twig and then touched the place where there had been mucus. Jabir said : This is why you should apply scent to your mosques.