(Worksheet) Removing The Sock Contradicts The Sunnah

Question: What is the ruling on removing the socks each time one makes ablution in order to protect one's purification.

Answer: This contradicts the Sunnah and, in it, there is an imitation of the Rawafidh who do not permit the socks to be wiped over. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to Al-Mughirah, when he wanted to remove the Prophet's (ﷺ) leather socks for him,

"Leave them, for I entered both (feet) into them while they were pure."

And then he wiped over them.

[Reported by Al-Bukhari in the Book of Ablution, in the Chapter: If He Donned His Khuffs When He Was in a State of Ritual Purity (206); and by Muslim in the Book of Purification, in the Chapter on Wiping Over the Leather Khuffs (274) (79).]

Source: Fatawa Arkaan-ul-Islaam, Vol. 1, by honorable Shaikh Muhammad Bin Saalih Al-'Uthaimeen (rahimahullaah)

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