Wiping over the leather socks and socks, and what indicates their validity.

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A question was recently posed regarding a man who wore his socks, and after wiping over them, he prayed whatever prayers he prayed, then he took them off. His ablution was not broken by any of the known nullifiers of ablution. Does taking off his socks break his ablution and prevent him from performing prayer, even though his ablution was not broken by any of those nullifiers?
... that there is nothing in the Book or the Sunnah indicating that removing what one has wiped over, such as socks, breaks the ablution absolutely or temporarily. I say absolutely or temporarily; because some scholars hold that it breaks the ablution absolutely, just as if a nullifier of ablution had come out of him, so they considered removing the leather socks or socks as a nullifier of the ablution. And some of them said it breaks the ablution temporarily; such that if he washed his feet after removing his leather socks or socks, his ablution would be valid, and consequently his prayer.
The correct view is that removing what one has wiped over does not break the ablution absolutely. The only thing is that by doing so, he is unable to return to wiping over them if he returns to wearing them. For one of the conditions of wiping over socks is that one wipes over them while in a state of complete purity; as came in the hadith of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding the story of his journey with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When he went out in the morning to relieve himself, then he came to perform ablution, and al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah poured his ablution water over him. When it came to the washing of the feet, al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah intended to remove the leather socks from the feet of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so he said: ; meaning: complete purity; meaning: he (peace be upon him) performed ablution in which he washed his feet, then he wore the leather socks over them, and therefore it was permissible for him to wipe over them at that time.
The scholars of hadith took from this authentic hadith, which is in al-Bukhari, that it is a condition for wiping over the leather socks that one wears them while in complete ablution. In the case of the previous question, he removed them, and we mentioned that removing them does not break his ablution. But since he had already wiped over them, it is not permissible for him to return to wearing them and then wiping over them; because in this case, he would not have worn them while in complete purity, but rather he would have worn them after having wiped over his feet by wiping over the socks.
This is what can be mentioned on this occasion regarding the fact that removing what one has wiped over does not break the ablution. Some scholars mention two things approximately related to this issue:
The first is a well-known rule: that the original state in Islamic rulings is the presumption of original permissibility; so nothing is obligatory upon the Muslim, and no act of worship is judged as defective or invalid except by an explicit text from the Wise Lawgiver. And since there is no text in the Sunnah, let alone in the Noble Qur'an, that removing what one has wiped over breaks the ablution, we remain upon the original state, which is the presumption of original permissibility.
The second thing is a matter upon which the scholars of the Muslims are in consensus: if a man performs ablution and wipes over the hair of his head, then shaves his hair, this shaving does not invalidate his ablution, just as is done in the case of pilgrims and those performing the lesser pilgrimage, where they circumambulate and walk between al-Safa and al-Marwah in a state of purity, then they implement His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He): . So this shaving and that cutting of the hair does not invalidate their ablution. Rather, they (i.e., the pilgrim or the one performing the lesser pilgrimage) can proceed to prayer immediately after shaving the hair of their head. They were ... so it is even more so if he was in a state of ablution and then cut his nails; this cutting of his nails does not break his ablution. Rather, his ablution remains in its validity and soundness. And this is the view that is stronger among the two previous views: one that the ablution is invalidated, and the other that it is invalidated temporarily until he washes his feet. This is the correct view, if Allah wills (the Exalted).
Yes.