Do I Have to Perform Makeup (Qada) Prayers if I Wiped Over Cotton Socks?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
When I was in high school, when doing wudu, I would either wash my feet with cotton socks without having wudu previously or wash mainly the top of the foot by spilling water on my feet. I thought these were valid opinions at the time until I started going into fiqh. Do I have to make up my prayers for all of those prayers?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question seeking an Islamic answer.
It is not permissible to wipe over cotton socks in the Hanafi School as they do not fulfill the condition of being valid footgear and prevent water from penetrating them if water is poured over them.
Mindfulness (taqwa) dictates that you perform the makeup (qada) prayers if you reached puberty when you used to wipe over your socks. However, due to difficulty and if you did not reach puberty, your wudu was valid based on the unofficial views of other schools. See the link below.
What Is Valid Footgear (Khuffs)?
Scholars say it would only be permitted to wipe over thick or heavy socks that have the meaning of valid footgear (khuffs), yet not thin socks.
The socks mentioned in the hadiths are understood to be those that fulfilled the conditions of such valid footgear (khuffs). The most important of these are:
- The ability to walk 3.5 miles or so in them without tearing;
- Thickness such that water doesn’t penetrate through to the foot upon wiping with a dripping wet hand.
[Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]
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- 44-Can I wipe over cotton socks in ritual ablution(wudu)?– Islam FAQ: Clear Reliable Answers to Common Questions -Shaykh Faraz Rabbani – SeekersGuidance
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Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
