Benefits of the hadith of al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: I was with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) one night during a journey, and he said to me: Do you have water with you?

The Shaykh : from the bottom until he washed them, so al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah thought that the leather socks were like that and that they should be removed in order to wash the foot, but the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said to him: and he wiped over them, meaning he put them on in a state of purity, so he wiped over them. In this hadith there are several benefits, among which is: that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) is a human being, subject to what befalls humans in natural matters; he gets cold as people get cold and he gets hot as people get hot. For this reason, Mu'awiyah saw him once, and he had unbuttoned the buttons of his shirt, because, and Allah knows best, he was hot, so he unbuttoned them. Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) thought that this was part of the Sunnah, but it is not part of the absolute Sunnah; rather, it is part of the Sunnah when it provides relief for the body, because everything that relieves the body is good. So if a person is hot and wants to open the top button and the one next to it, there is no harm; this is part of the Sunnah. But without a reason, it is not part of the Sunnah, because if it were part of the Sunnah, then buttoning them up would be futile with no benefit, and the Islamic religion contains nothing futile; it is all serious. And among the benefits of this hadith is: that there is no blame on a person for protecting himself from what harms him, whether heat or cold, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did. In fact, it is better for a person to protect himself from what harms him, whether heat or cold, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did. In fact, it is better for a person to protect himself from what harms him, because this is part of the complete care for the self: to protect yourself from what harms you. So much so that Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Eating, if you fear that it will harm you, becomes forbidden for you. Eating, which is food, if you fear that it will harm you, either because of its quantity or because you ate recently and you fear that you will be harmed by the new food, then eating is forbidden for you. It is forbidden, meaning that you would sin if you ate, because a person must care for his self with proper care. And among the benefits of the hadith is: that it is not permissible to wipe over a barrier other than the leather socks or the turban. So if a person is wearing a tight-sleeved garment and the hand does not come out except with difficulty, and he says: I will wipe over this garment as I wipe over the leather sock, we say: This is not permissible. You must take your hand out until you wash it, even if it is assumed that it does not come out except by tearing the sleeve, then he must tear it so that the person performs what Allah has made obligatory upon him of washing the hand. And among the benefits of the hadith is: the clarification of the ignorance of some people who think that the gloves on the hands—what are called the "munkarat" or "manakir" (nails)—are like the leather socks. They say that if a woman puts them on in a state of purity, she washes them for a day and a night. This is a mistake and is not correct. The nails must be removed during ablution so that the water reaches the nails and the tips of the fingers. And among the benefits of this hadith is: the permissibility of using free people, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had al-Mughirah serving him. But there is no doubt that serving the Messenger is an honor, and everyone takes pride in serving the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had servants from among the free people, such as 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), Anas ibn Malik, and others. So al-Mughirah was serving the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). And among the benefits of this hadith is: the permissibility of assisting the one performing ablution in his ablution, meaning you pour water on him, you bring the vessel closer to him, and the like. And likewise, if it is assumed that he is unable to wash his limbs, then you wash them for him. If it is assumed that he has a fracture or paralysis in his hand or the like, there is no harm in you washing his limbs for him. And among the benefits of this hadith is: that if a person is wearing leather socks or socks in a state of purity, he wipes over them, and that wiping is better than washing. Wiping over the leather socks, if a person put them on in a state of purity, is better than removing them and washing his feet, because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: leave them and he wiped over them. And among the benefits of this hadith is what some scholars held: that wiping over the leather socks is done once over both feet, because al-Mughirah did not mention that he started with the right before the left. So some scholars deduced from that that wiping over the leather socks is done with both hands at once. But there is no harm if a person does this or wipes over the right foot before the left, because wiping is a substitute for washing, and in washing the right is advanced over the left, and the substitute has the ruling of the thing it substitutes. So if a person does this or that, there is no harm; the matter is broad in this. And among the benefits of this hadith is: that it is not permissible to wipe over the leather socks or the socks unless they were put on in a state of purity. If they were put on in a state other than purity, it is obligatory for him to remove them during ablution and wash his feet. And there are other benefits, but we do not like to prolong them for you. And Allah knows best.