What is the authenticity of the hadith: (If the sandals get wet, pray in your places)?

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : ؟

The Shaykh : The meaning of the hadith is valid, but this specific wording is also not known. However, there are many hadiths in the authentic Sunnah, among which is that the mu'adhdhin... and this is one of the abandoned sunnahs that have been left behind by the practice of the Muslims. The mu'adhdhin, in the adhan, instead of adding the additions at the beginning and end for which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has sent down no authority, they do not add the additions that Allah revealed upon the heart of His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Among these is that when the mu'adhdhin says in his adhan: there are two sunnahs; either he substitutes and says instead of: , or if you wish, you combine and say: , or you combine: as is the system in the rule then he says: . This sunnah has not remained among the people, first due to their ignorance, and second due to the prevalence of madhhabism in some Islamic countries. If they knew the sunnah, then when the sunnah contradicts the madhhab, the issue is reversed for them; the weaker position becomes the stronger, and the stronger becomes the weaker. The madhhab becomes the stronger position and the sunnah becomes the weaker position—may Allah protect us from that!
So, in the authentic, established sunnahs, there is the permissibility of combining prayers in the mosque for rain, and this is one of its proofs. But who combines today in the mosque for the sake of rain? It is very, very rare. I had mentioned to you that in this last winter, when the snow increased in al-Zabadani, I went up to... on Friday. I prayed 'Asr and I really appreciated the imam for the first time hearing him say: "O my brothers"—excuse me, it was not Friday, it was a day other than Friday—he prayed Zuhr and then reminded them before the prayer, based on the Shafi'i madhhab, saying: "O my brothers, intend from now on to combine 'Asr and Zuhr." For what? The snow. So this was a reviving of a sunnah that was actually abandoned. Therefore, praying in one's place is a matter established in many hadiths. As for this wording, what was the wording?

The questioner : .

The Shaykh: So we do not know it in the established Sunnah.
Yes.