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97. Al-Mughīrah bin Shu'bah narrated: "The Prophet ﷺ wiped over the Khuff and its bottom." (Da'if)
Abū 'Eisā said: This is the opinion of more than one of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, the Tābi'īn, [and those after them among the Fuqahā',] and it is the opinion of Mālik, Ash-Shāfi'ī and Ishāq.
This Hadīth is defective, Its chain has not been traced uninterrupted from Thawr bin Yazid upto the Prophet, except by Al-Walīd bin Muslim.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] I asked Abū Zur'ah and Muḥammad [bin Ismā'īl] about this Hadīth. They both said that it is not Ṣaḥīḥ because Ibn Al-Mubārak reported this from Thawr from Rajā' [bin Haywah] who said: "It was narrated to me from the scribe of Al-Mughīrah," in Mursal form, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he did not mention Al-Mughīrah in it.
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Commentary
In the light of authentic Aḥādīth, only the top of the socks will be wiped, and the bottom of socks will not be wiped. The abovementioned narration is
inaccurate. Sixty people narrated this Hadīth from Mughīrah and none, other than this chain, mentioned ‘wiping the bottom of socks’. [At-Takhḷīs Al-Habīr, 1/58]. It was narrated from Alī رضي الله عنه through an authentic chain in which he said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allāh صلوات الله عليه وسلم wiping over the top of the socks.’ [At-Takhḷīs Al-Habīr, 1/59]
