Chapter: Wiping over Leather Socks (khuffs)

1. The practice of wiping over the khuffs is established by the Sunnah. It is valid for every state of minor impurity that obliges wuḍūʾ, provided one donned the khuffs after having completed full purification and only thereafter invalidated his wuḍūʾ.

2. A resident may wipe for one day and one night; a traveller may wipe for three days and their nights. The period starts immediately after the act that nullified wuḍūʾ.

3. The wiping is done across the upper surface of the khuffs by running the fingers in strokes, beginning at the tips of the toes and moving up toward the shin.

4. The obligatory minimum is an area equivalent to the breadth of three of the smallest fingers of the hand.

5. It is not permissible to wipe over a khuff that has a tear exposing an area the size of three toes; if the exposed area is smaller than that, wiping is permissible.

6. A person who is required to perform ghusl may not wipe over khuffs.

7. Whatever nullifies wuḍūʾ also nullifies the wiping. In addition, removing a khuff or the lapse of the allowed time invalidates it. When the period expires, he removes the khuffs, washes his feet, and prays; repeating the rest of his wuḍūʾ is not required.

8. If someone began wiping while resident and then travelled before the end of a full day and night, he may wipe for three days and nights. Conversely, if he began wiping while travelling and then became resident: • if he has already wiped for a day and a night or more, he must take off the khuffs and wash his feet; • if he has wiped for less than a day and a night, he completes the allowance to one full day and night.

9. Whoever wears an overshoe (jurmuq) on top of the khuff wipes over the overshoe.

10. According to Abū Ḥanīfah (may Allah have mercy on him), wiping over ordinary socks (jawrabayn) is not permissible.