What is the answer to the one who holds that wiping over socks is not prescribed, and that the authentic evidence is established only for the leather socks (khuff)?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The one who holds that the prescription of wiping over the leather socks (khuff) is specific to the leather socks and not the socks (jawa'ib), which are the undergarments, does not consider wiping over them to be prescribed. He says this is because the authentic evidence is established only for the leather socks. Is he thereby in disagreement with the people of the Sunnah in this matter?

Answer:
Wiping over socks is a unique position of Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him). The majority of scholars hold that one does not wipe over socks. However, the truth is with Imam Ahmad, because the evidence for wiping over socks has been established. This is added to the hadiths regarding wiping over leather socks, and it serves as a counterpoint to them. It is added to them, and it is said: one wipes over the leather socks and over the socks. Yes.