Walking barefoot to the Friday prayer and the meaning of “he walked and did not ride”
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In the hadith of Aws al-Thaqafi, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “he walked and did not ride.” Does a man walk barefoot without wearing sandals? Because it is reported in Sahih Muslim that a man remains a rider as long as he is wearing sandals?
Answer:
If there is danger in walking barefoot—there is thorns in the ground, there are pebbles, there is glass—and it is dangerous for him, then it is not permissible for him to walk barefoot. But if the ground is smooth and there is nothing in it that hurts him or harms him, then walking barefoot at times is better, even from a health perspective. This is better. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In the hadith of Aws al-Thaqafi, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “he walked and did not ride.” Does a man walk barefoot without wearing sandals? Because it is reported in Sahih Muslim that a man remains a rider as long as he is wearing sandals?
Answer:
If there is danger in walking barefoot—there is thorns in the ground, there are pebbles, there is glass—and it is dangerous for him, then it is not permissible for him to walk barefoot. But if the ground is smooth and there is nothing in it that hurts him or harms him, then walking barefoot at times is better, even from a health perspective. This is better. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين [25] — alfawzan.live (58:32)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.