{"id":2616,"date":"2013-03-24T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T10:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2014-03-03T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:22:39","slug":"ibn-uthaymeen-removing-the-socks-one-has-wiped-over-does-not-break-the-wudhoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/ibn-uthaymeen-removing-the-socks-one-has-wiped-over-does-not-break-the-wudhoo.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ibn ‘Uthaymeen: Removing the Socks One has Wiped Over Does not Break the Wudhoo’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah…<\/em><\/p>\n

On the live radio show, Noor ‘alad-Darb<\/em>, the great scholar,\u00a0Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih\u00a0al-‘Uthaymeen<\/strong> [d.1421] – may Allaah have Mercy on him – was asked about the things that\u00a0nullify the allowance to\u00a0wipe over the footwear, other than the legislated time running out (one day\u00a0for residents and\u00a0three days for travelers).<\/p>\n

He replied:<\/p>\n

Removing the footwear is also something that nullifies the (allowance for) wiping over it. When a person takes off the footwear, the allowance to wipe over it ends, no matter when that occurs. However, the state of purity remains (i.e. removing the footwear does not nullify the wudhoo’).<\/p>\n

The proof that removing the footwear nullifies (the allowance for) wiping (over it) is the hadeeth of Safwaan ibn [‘Assaal] (1)\u00a0(who said): “The Messenger of Allaah\u00a0– may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace – ordered us not to take off our socks…”\u00a0 This shows that removing them negates the allowance to wipe over them. Thus, when a person removes his socks after wiping over them, the allowance to wipe has been nullified, meaning that he may not put them back on and continue wiping over them until he makes another complete wudhoo’ and washes his feet first.<\/p>\n

However, his state of purity after removing them remains intact, as tahaarah (purity) is not nullified by the removal of footwear that was wiped over. This is because when someone wipes over (his footwear), his purification has been completed based on legislative evidences. This state of purification is only affected by something proven to negate it\u00a0by legislative evidence.\u00a0 There is no evidence that supports someone’s wudhoo’ becoming invalid due to the removal of footwear that was wiped over.<\/p>\n

Rather, the evidence only proves that (the period of) wiping is nullified (once the footwear is removed), and that one may not wipe over the socks again\u00a0until he\u00a0has washed his feet as part of a complete wudhoo’.<\/p>\n

Based on this, we hold that the base rule is that the\u00a0wudhoo’ remains valid, being\u00a0(a state of purification) proven by evidence, until evidence exists (that it becomes invalid). If there is no evidence to show that the wudhoo’ has been nullified, then\u00a0it remains completely valid.\u00a0 This is what we hold to be the correct position.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source:<\/strong> This transcript<\/a> (Arabic) from his spoken answer.<\/p>\n

And Allaah knows best. [2]<\/p>\n

Translated by: Moosaa Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n

FOOTNOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[1] The hadeeth was collected by at-Tirmithee (96), an-Nasaa’ee (158), and Ibn Maajah (478), and others, on the authority of Safwaan ibn ‘Assaal. At-Tirmithee called the hadeeth: hasan saheeh<\/em> (authentic). Al-Albaanee\u00a0graded it hasan<\/em> in\u00a0Irwaa’ al-Ghaleel<\/em> (104). \u00a0Note:<\/em> the original Arabic source quotes the shaykh as saying: Safwaan ibn “Ghassaan”<\/em>, which is a mistake.<\/p>\n

[2] A fatwaa<\/em> that removing the socks nullifies the wudhoo’<\/em> has been incorrectly attributed to Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez ibn Baaz<\/strong> [d.1420], may Allaah have Mercy on him.\u00a0 Review his actual words carefully in his\u00a0Fatwaa Collection<\/em>\u00a0(10\/113).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Name of Allaah… On the live radio show, Noor ‘alad-Darb, the great scholar,\u00a0Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih\u00a0al-‘Uthaymeen [d.1421] – may Allaah have Mercy on him – was asked about the things that\u00a0nullify the allowance to\u00a0wipe over the footwear, other … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,64,163,180,59],"tags":[158,198,188,319,408,409,407,235],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiqh-islamic-rulings","category-original-articles","category-purification","category-questions-answers","category-translations","tag-al-albaanee","tag-ibn-baaz","tag-ibn-uthaymeen","tag-noor-alad-darb","tag-purification-2","tag-tahaarah","tag-wiping-over-footwear","tag-wudhoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakkah.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}