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

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The Shaykh: Yes.

Eid Abbasi :
If the sandals get wet, pray in your places إذا ابتلَّت النِّعال فصلُّوا في الرحال
؟

The Shaykh : The meaning of the hadith is authentic, but this specific wording is also not known. However, there are many hadiths in the authentic Sunnah, among them: the mu'adhdhin—and this is one of the abandoned, neglected Sunnahs due to the actions of the Muslims of the Sunnah—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, does not add the additions that Allah sent down upon the heart of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Among these is that when the mu'adhdhin says in his adhan:
"Come to prayer," "Come to salvation" حي على الصلاة حي على الفلاح
Sunan Abi Dawud 553Sahih (Al-Albani)
there are two Sunnahs; either he substitutes and says instead of:
"Come to prayer," "Come to salvation" حي على الصلاة حي على الفلاح
Sunan Abi Dawud 553Sahih (Al-Albani)
Prayer in the beds, prayer in the beds الصلاةَ في الرحال الصلاةَ في الرحال
, or if you wish, you combine and say:
Prayer in the beds, prayer in the beds الصلاةُ في الرحال الصلاةُ في الرحال
, or you combine:
Hasten to prayer حي على الصلاة
as is the system and rule:
come to prayer, come to prayer; come to salvation, come to salvation حي على الصلاة حي على الفلاح حي على الفلاح
Sunan Abi Dawud 504Sahih (Al-Albani)
, then he says:
Prayer in the beds, prayer in the beds الصلاة في الرحال الصلاة في الرحال
. This Sunnah has not remained among the people, first because of their ignorance, and second because of the prevalence of madhhabism in some Islamic lands. If they knew the Sunnah, 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, and the Sunnah becomes the weaker—may Allah protect us from that!
So, in the authentic, established Sunnah, it is permissible to combine prayers in the mosque for rain, and this is one of its proofs. But who combines in the mosque today 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 "Zubdani," I went up to "Baloudan" on a 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 that day of Friday, it was not a Friday—he prayed Zuhr, then he alerted them before the prayer, based on the Shafi'i madhhab, that they should intend from now on to combine 'Asr and Zuhr; for what? The snow; so this was a revival of a Sunnah that is actually neglected. So, praying in the shoes is a matter established in many hadiths. As for this wording, what was the wording?

The questioner :
If the sandals become wet إذا ابتلَّت النِّعال
.

The Shaykh:
If the sandals become wet, then pray in the shoes إذا ابتلَّت النِّعال فالصلاة في الرحال
So we do not know it in the established Sunnah.
Yes.
Source www.al-albany.com

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