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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Book of Purification-13

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The Shaykh :"And from 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
The Prophet (ﷺ) fixed the period of Mash (wiping) over the leather socks (Khifaf – plural of Khuff) for three days and nights for a traveller and one day and a night for the resident person in a town جعل النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ثلاثة أيام ولياليهن للمسافر ، ويوماً وليلة للمقيم ، يعني في المسح على الخفين
Bulugh al-Maram 62
Muslim narrated it"
:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set جعل النبي
: Know that "setting" (ja'l) is divided into two categories:
Natural setting (qadri) and legislative setting (shar'i):
So an example of legislative setting is the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Allah has not appointed [such innovations as] bahirah or sa'ibah or wasilah or ham ما جعل الله مِن بَحِيرة ولا سائبة ولا وصيلة ولا حام
[Al-Ma'idah 5:103]
,
then Allah has not made ما جعل الله
[An-Nisa 4:90]
Is this legislative setting or natural setting?
The student: Legislative.

The Shaykh : Legislative, and it is not correct for it to be natural, because the bahirah, the sa'ibah, the wasilah, and the ham are existing things, so the negation of "setting" here refers to legislative setting, meaning: what Allah legislated.
And natural setting is abundant in the Qur'an:
(10) And made the night as clothing (11) And made the day for livelihood وجعلنا الليل لباسًا * وجعلنا النهار معاشا
[An-Naba 78:10-11]
What kind of setting is this?
This is natural setting.
So the statement of 'Ali (may Allah be pleased with him):
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set جعل النبي
Which of the two is it?
The student: Legislative.

The Shaykh : Legislative
three days and three nights for a traveller ثلاثة أيام ولياليهن للمسافر
Sahih Muslim 276a
as in the hadith of Safwan.
and one day and one night for the resident ويوما وليلة للمقيم
It begins from the first wiping after the state of ritual impurity, and on this basis, the time that was before the wiping after the state of ritual impurity is not counted in the duration. So if a man wore the leather socks for the Fajr prayer, and remained in a state of ritual purity and did not wipe until the 'Isha' prayer, when does the duration begin?
From the wiping for 'Isha'. For this reason, it may remain for three days while he is a resident; it may remain in a state of ritual purity until he sleeps and does not wipe until the Fajr prayer of the second day, so the duration begins from the Fajr prayer and ends at the Fajr prayer of the third day. And if he remains in a state of ritual purity until 'Isha', how many prayers did he pray with his leather socks?
Three days, yes. As for the saying of the common people: five prayers, this has no basis.
It appears that the benefits from this hadith do not exceed the benefits of the hadith of Safwan except?
Except for the resident:
one day and one night يوم وليلة
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Source alathar.net

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