What are the rulings on wiping over socks?

The questioner :
Regarding wiping over socks...

The Shaykh:
If you take them off and then put them back on, it is not permissible to wipe over them.

The questioner:
...you performed wudu and then put them back on.

The Shaykh:
Meaning, you performed wudu, put on the socks, and then wiped over them.

The questioner:
I put on the socks while in a state of purity, then my wudu was broken, I wiped over the socks, and after wiping, I took them off.
The socks.

The Shaykh:
I am going to repeat your words back to you, but briefly. When you said you wiped over them, meaning your wudu was broken, I...
I am going to repeat your words. You performed a complete wudu, put on the socks, your wudu was broken, and you wiped over them.
You then prayed one prayer or more, and then you took them off. This taking them off does not invalidate your wudu. You can pray as much as you wish with this wudu before it is broken by one of the things that break wudu, whether you are barefoot or you put them back on.
But if you put them back on and then your wudu is broken, it is not permissible to wipe over them. Do you understand? As for the wudu,
it is valid and is not broken except by one of the things that break wudu. But as long as you took them off and then put them back on
after you had wiped over them, here it is not permissible after taking them off for you to put them on and wipe over them, because you put them on
without being in a state of complete purity. Please go ahead.
It is said that it is not permissible except on thick socks. Is this correct?

The questioner:
It is said that it is not permissible except on a thick sock. Is this correct?

The Shaykh:
This is incorrect, for Allah, as He said, and wiping over the socks.
the resident wipes for one day and one night, and the traveler for three days and their nights. This is the condition, meaning if the day and night end,
wiping is not permissible. But what must the leather sock be, for example? I say, what must its color be? Is it black? Is it
red? Is it white? All of that has not been addressed by the Lawgiver. Of course, no one among the scholars has said this, but this
leads us to something the scholars said that is similar to what no one among the scholars has said. So if no one has stipulated
a condition in it, likewise, it did not come in the Book or the Sunnah that this leather sock must cover the ankles. Why?
Because this condition also did not come, that it must cover the ankles. Rather, what invalidates this condition came, where
it is established in the authentic Sunnah that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) wiped over sandals, and a sandal in language is not
a leather sock. A leather sock in language covers the ankles, and a sandal in language does not cover the ankles. The evidence for that is his saying (peace and
blessings be upon him) regarding the one in ihram, in a hadith in the two Sahihs from Ibn 'Umar: "The one in ihram does not wear
a shirt, a turban, a jacket, or leather socks, but he wears sandals. If he does not find anything but leather socks, let him cut them
below the ankles so that they become like sandals." Cutting the leather sock below the ankles made it sandals. So this is an explicit text
that sandals do not cover the ankles. And if we know from what preceded that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) wiped over sandals, then stipulating that
it must cover the ankles is incorrect. Likewise, that it must cover, as they say in a general phrase, the place of the obligatory
washing. This is also a condition, because the washing must include the ankles... that it did not include the ankles. So if one of us is wearing,
for example, what is called today slippers, which cover the whole foot except the place of the ankles, or wearing what he
mentioned earlier, sandals, which are open, even from here and here, this is all called a sandal. So no condition is stipulated
regarding leather socks, because wiping over sandals is established. It also came that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the noble CompanionsThe questioner
wiped over socks. No condition came in the Book or the Sunnah, from what some
jurists mention, such as what I said, unlike you, that they must be thick. Glory be to Allah, how much thickness is there? These are
a measure. The distinguishing criterion for thickness is the fulfillment of the condition, and another thickness that does not fulfill the condition. This is a burden of what is
not bearable. That a person is burdened with knowing the thickness that the Lawgiver prescribed from the thickness that the Lawgiver did not permit. This is
a burden of what is not bearable. And Allah the Exalted has purified Himself from burdening His servants with what they cannot bear. And such a condition
is that it not be torn or split. And some of the scholars of ijtihad, Al-Awza'i (may Allah have mercy on him), did well when
he said, "The socks of the Muhajireen and Ansar were nothing but torn." Because the meaning of this condition is invalidating the dispensation
of wiping over leather socks and socks. Because when the Lawgiver wants to stipulate that it not be torn, it means that
he wants to take the dispensation, he wants to keep it in mind, and his habit is with his socks: is it torn or not? So that wiping is permissible or not permissible, or is it not torn, wiping is permissible. Is this the nature of the dispensation? This is the nature of the default rulings
and hardships. Therefore, despite the fact that such a condition did not come in the Book and the Sunnah, the Salaf scholars,
among them, say the socks of the Companions were nothing but like this. And the thickness about which the question was asked, the opposite of it came from
'Umar ibn al-Khattab, where Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in his book al-Majmu' that 'Umar ibn
al-Khattab held the permissibility of wiping over thin socks. And this is what is consistent with the ease of the Shari'ah
and its leniency in this issue. Otherwise, it would be burdening people with what they cannot bear, and this is what the
Shari'ah has purified itself from, as we mentioned. Of this kind is that they stay on the legs by themselves, and of this kind is that one can
walk a distance of half an hour on them without sandals, meaning and they do not slip off. Glory be to Allah, this resembles philosophy that
and the dispensation in this matter, otherwise it would be imposing on people what they cannot bear, and this is something from which [the Shari'ah] is free.
there is no stipulation of any of the conditions in wiping over socks or sandals or leather socks, except that
one puts them on first in a state of purity, and the determination of the duration of wiping for the resident is one day and one night, and for the traveler is three days and their nights. Yes.
It is merely a guess. Where did they get these restrictions and conditions from? And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says in His Book: and His Prophet says in his hadith: "Every condition that is not in the Book of Allah is invalid, even if there were a hundred conditions."
What is the one wearing wearing? Whether it is above the ankles or below them, as mentioned earlier. Please go ahead.
Is it permissible for one who performs wudu, while wearing socks, to put his foot in water and take his foot out of the water, and then wipe over them?

The questioner:
No, because he does not know if the water reached all the pores of the skin.

The Shaykh:
What is the ruling on what is worn, whether it is above the ankles or below them, as mentioned previously? Please proceed.

The questioner:
Well, he does not know if the water reached all the... skin. And according to some schools of jurisprudence, rubbing is also stipulated.

The Shaykh:
He wants ease for you and does not want hardship for you.

The questioner:
And your Lord is not forgetful.

The Shaykh:
Well, one does not know if the water has reached the entire skin. Then, according to some schools of jurisprudence, rubbing is also required.