Is it in the Sunnah to shorten the garment to the middle of the shin?

Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. A questioner from Algeria says: Some people criticize those who shorten their garments and they interpret some of the hadiths that explicitly mention this shortening. What is the correct ruling regarding shortening the garment? May Allah reward you.

Answer:
The correct position, as stated in the Sunnah, is that the garment of the Muslim man should be between the middle of the shin and the ankle. If the garment does not go below the ankle and does not rise above the middle of the shin, this is the Sunnah. The Muslim follows the society in which he lives. If they wear their garments down to the ankle, this is the Sunnah; he wears like them and does not raise it to the middle of the shin, so that he is not considered strange among them and does not become a point of notoriety. He follows his society in the Sunnah, in what they practice of the Sunnah. However, if the practice of his society is contrary to the Sunnah, he does not agree with them. If they wear their garments below the ankle, this is contrary to the Sunnah, and he does not agree with them on it. If they raise them above the middle of the shin, this is contrary to the Sunnah, and he does not agree with them on it. But if they are adhering to the Sunnah in one of the forms of the Sunnah, he agrees with them and does not oppose them by adopting another form of the Sunnah, so that he does not become a point of notoriety among them and they do not take issue with him. If they wear their garments down to the ankle, this is the Sunnah, and he agrees with them and wears like them. Yes.