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Regarding
the prescribed period for wiping (mas.h) over the socks (khuffayn)
Question:
Is the time during which socks may remain on the feet limited
to a day and a night, or five prayers only? And if a person
is in a state of ritual impurity, and he prays more than five
prayers, beginning the wiping, for example, after the 'Ishaa.
prayer, then wiping for the Fajr,
Zhuhr,
'Asr
and Maghrib
prayers, then the time for the the
'Ishaa.
prayer comes and the wudhoo.
of his Maghrib
prayer is still intact - can he pray the 'Ishaa.
prayer with the wudhoo.
of the Maghrib
prayer, or should he remove his socks and perform wudhoo.?
Response:
It has been authentically reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) limited the time for wiping over the
socks to three days and nights for the traveller and a day
and a night for the resident, and he did not restrict wiping
to a specific number of prayers.
Based
upon this, the resident may pray with wiping more than five
prayers, for example; wiping over them in wudhoo.
after invalidating his wudhoo.
at Maghrib
time, then praying Maghrib
and the 'Ishaa.
together at Maghrib
time, then wiping over them for every one of the following
prayers: Fajr,
Zhuhr,
'Asr,
and then praying Maghrib
and the 'Ishaa.
together at Maghrib
time on the second day, due to sickness or any other valid
legal reason for combining the prayers.
And with
Allaah lies all success and may Allaah send prayers and salutations
upon our Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) and his family and his companions.
The
Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Fataawa
Fataawa Islaamiyyah - Volume 1, Page 236
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