The Ruling on Wiping Over Socks That Do Not Cover

Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says, may Allah protect you: A person took off his colleague's socks on the grounds that the socks reveal the skin, but the person put the socks back on, wiped over them, and prayed. It is known that he had wiped over them in the previous prayer before his colleague removed them. What is the ruling on that? May Allah bless you.

Answer:
It is a condition for socks that they cover what is beneath them. Therefore, a sock that does not cover, for example because it is thin or has holes and tears, is not wiped over, just as one does not wipe over a sound, covering sock, because it takes the place of the leather sock. The default for the leather sock and the default for the sock are soundness and covering. Since you have clarified to this brother that it is not permissible to wipe over such a sock that does not cover, but he did not accept it, you have fulfilled the obligation upon you. He commits a sin by doing so, and his prayer is not valid; because he did not wash his foot, and he did not wipe over it with a valid wiping. Yes.