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400. Sa'eed bin Yazīd Abī Maslamah said: "I said to Anas bin Mālik: 'Would Allāh's Messenger ﷺ perform Ṣalāt wearing his sandals?' He said: 'Yes.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd, 'Abdullāh bin Abī Ḥabībah, 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr, 'Amr bin Ḥuraith, Shaddād bin Aws, Aws Ath-Thaqafī, Abū Hurairah, and 'Aṭā' - a man from Banū Ṣaibah.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Anas is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge.
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It is known from this Ḥadīth that offering prayer in clean shoes is not only permissible and correct but also it is recommended and desirable where its permissibility is denied. As for the mosques these days, instead of being plastered with soil, costly carpets, rugs and mats are laid therein. In these conditions persisting to offer prayer with the shoes on will cause untidiness and disturbance to other people. Moreover even the cleanliness and fineness of the carpet, despite the shoes being clean, will not bear the use of shoes. However it is totally wrong to deny the permissibility and it being Sunnah:
because the prayer is also performed at places other than mosques, like in the desert etc; particularly the soldiers in the trenches. Offering prayer with the shoes on at such places is permissible and correct. The only necessary thing to be observed is that there is no apparent impurity with the shoes. [For further details, see: Fatāwa Shaikhul-Islām Ibn Taimīyah: 11 / 430 new print, 22 / 121 old print; Fatāwa Al-Lajnah Ad-Dā'imah: 6 / 213-217]
