Muhammad Shabbir Usmani

Wiping Over Socks According to the Hanafi Madhab Muhammad Shabbir Usmani

The permissibility of wiping over the Khuffayn, leather socks, is by consensus among the Muslim Ummah. But wiping over the non-leather, cotton, nylon and woollen socks is controversial whereas there are a number of authentic and solid evidences in favour of this issue. It is sad that some people of knowledge, intentionally or unintentionally, did not give justice to this issue, while some people even forged a false consensus to negate the issue. They vocally rejected everything and threw all the evidences out of the window for the sake of Taql?d alone. Here, in this small booklet we shall precisely draw our brothers' attention to the fact that the companions of the Prophet, the successors, the great Imams, jurists, scholars of Hadith, commentators of the holy Qur'an, Mujtahideen and the scholars of various schools of thought were in favour of wiping over socks.