What is the ruling on the prayer of one who lets his garment hang below the ankles?

The questioner : What is the ruling on a person who prays while letting his garment hang below the ankles? Is his prayer invalid?

The Shaykh : Its ruling is the same as the ruling for one who prays while wearing a specific school of jurisprudence.

Another questioner : Ah, my teacher, regarding...

The Shaykh : What is he asking about...

Another questioner : Pardon me.

The Shaykh : Listen to the question and listen to the answer.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, ... the question?

The questioner : What is the ruling on a person who prays while letting his garment hang below the ankles?

The Shaykh : So what was the answer!

The questioner : Its ruling is like the ruling for one who prays while wearing a specific school of jurisprudence [everyone laughs!]. Okay; what is the ruling on one who prays while wearing a specific school of jurisprudence? Because I heard a fatwa that his prayer is invalidated by this, meaning, in Pakistan, he rolls up his trousers while praying. I rebuked them; I said to him: How can you roll this up? It is disliked. He said to me: O Abu 'Umar, if the one who lets his garment hang below the ankles also has hadiths that seem to indicate his prayer is invalidated, as if it is invalidated; meaning, there is severity in the hadiths that letting the garment hang below the ankles affects his prayer?

The Shaykh : May Allah answer you, O Abu 'Abdullah, with your long patience!

The questioner : So I am looking for the ruling, and I do not have this knowledge that his prayer is invalidated or that there is something wrong with his prayer that would necessitate them rolling it up. I said to him: Shorten his garments from the beginning... until the ruling is finished. We need to know the true ruling in this matter. Did you answer me? I am the second one to ask; what is the ruling on the prayer of one who wears a specific school of jurisprudence?

Another questioner : I mean, the Shaykh...

The questioner : He wants the prayer of one who wears a specific school of jurisprudence. He wants to explain and reveal the ruling on his prayer?

The Shaykh : Of course, his prayer is valid, but he is committing a forbidden act.

Another questioner : Forbidden.

The questioner : Both the one who wears a specific school of jurisprudence and the one who lets his garment hang below the ankles, and it is wrong to roll it up. He must shorten it.

The Shaykh : Stay with the first point for now.

The questioner : Yes, he is committing a forbidden act while letting his garment hang below the ankles. Until we advise him, we tell him: Shorten it.

The Shaykh : You said just now that actions are by intentions, and this is a Prophetic hadith. A question arises: Are words also by intentions, or only actions?

The questioner : ... words.

The Shaykh : Okay; so what is the intention of the phrase "wearing a specific school of jurisprudence"?

The questioner : What is the intention?

The Shaykh : What did you understand?

The questioner : I understood that you want to explain about the one who wears a specific school of jurisprudence... the ruling... and I do not know why you turned this "wearing a specific school of jurisprudence" around; I did not understand.

The Shaykh : Yes, O 'Abdullah, yes, I see you.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : You... from me... take your freedom.