What is the ruling on a woman wearing a dress with stockings in prayer?
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The questioner: May Allah preserve you, is wearing a wide, loose dress that reaches the ankles in the museum?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Is it permissible to wear a wide, loose garment that reaches the ankles with non-transparent socks in prayer, or not?
The Shaykh: I did not understand the condition regarding the socks. Does the question concern the woman or the man? The woman?
The questioner: Yes, she wears it to the ankles and completes it with socks.
The Shaykh: This varies according to the scholars who hold that the feet are part of the 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) or not. Whoever holds, as I do, that the feet are part of the 'awrah, it is obligatory that the garment cover the outer surface of the feet, and it is not sufficient for the covering to be stockings, because they reveal the shape or fit tightly. And worse than fitting tightly is if they are transparent. If they are not transparent, they still fit the limb tightly. So, for the one who says the feet are 'awrah, there is no difference between the garment—here, the stocking—covering the foot, the lower leg, or the upper leg, for all of it is part of the woman's 'awrah. As for the one who holds, like the Hanafi school for example, that the woman's feet are not part of the 'awrah, then whether she wears the stockings or not, there is no difference in his view.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Is it permissible to wear a wide, loose garment that reaches the ankles with non-transparent socks in prayer, or not?
The Shaykh: I did not understand the condition regarding the socks. Does the question concern the woman or the man? The woman?
The questioner: Yes, she wears it to the ankles and completes it with socks.
The Shaykh: This varies according to the scholars who hold that the feet are part of the 'awrah (the part of the body that must be covered) or not. Whoever holds, as I do, that the feet are part of the 'awrah, it is obligatory that the garment cover the outer surface of the feet, and it is not sufficient for the covering to be stockings, because they reveal the shape or fit tightly. And worse than fitting tightly is if they are transparent. If they are not transparent, they still fit the limb tightly. So, for the one who says the feet are 'awrah, there is no difference between the garment—here, the stocking—covering the foot, the lower leg, or the upper leg, for all of it is part of the woman's 'awrah. As for the one who holds, like the Hanafi school for example, that the woman's feet are not part of the 'awrah, then whether she wears the stockings or not, there is no difference in his view.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 1255 — d3watuna.com (12:12)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.