An Important Issue Regarding Wiping Over Leather Socks

Question : This questioner says: A man wiped over his boots and socks for several months. Is his action valid? He says that when he comes to the mosque, he takes off his boots, may Allah reward you with good, and then puts on his socks inside the mosque?

Answer : The scholars, may Allah have mercy on them, say that if one wears leather socks, or socks and leather socks, and wipes over the uppermost of them, the ruling is attached to that. So if he takes them off after wiping, he does not put them back on to wipe over them again until he performs a complete ablution in which he washes his feet. If one of the scholars of knowledge said that it is permissible, if he takes them off after wiping and then puts them back on while in a state of purity, to wipe over them for the remainder of the period, or over the socks underneath them, if any scholar said that, that is what I would say. But I have not seen, up to now, that any of the scholars has said such a statement. So whoever has looked into something, let him help us with it, may Allah reward him with good, because the need is urgent for clarifying this ruling and knowing it. May Allah reward you.