53 – Al-Mughira ibn Shu‘bah reported: “I was with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he performed ablution. I reached out to remove his two khuffs (leather socks), but he said, ‘Leave them, for I put them on while they were both pure,’ and he wiped over them.” Agreed upon.

The Four, except for al-Nasa’i, also narrate from him: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, wiped the upper and lower surfaces of the khuff,” and its chain is weak. (1)

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Hadith grading
The additional wording transmitted by the Four other than al-Nasa’i, the author says, has a weak chain.
Al-Talkhîṣ states: “He wiped the upper and lower surfaces of the khuff,” reported by Ahmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī and others, through Thawr ibn Yazīd from Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah from the scribe of al-Mughira, from al-Mughira; and Ahmad regards the scribe of al-Mughira as weak.
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said in al-ʿIlal, quoting his father and Abū Zurʿah: the report of al-Walīd is not preserved. Al-Tirmidhī stated: This ḥadīth is defective; no one related it as a musnad from Thawr except al-Walīd.

Vocabulary
– fa-ahwaytu: Al-Miṣbāḥ says: ahwā ilayh with an alif means he stretched out his hand to take something that is near; if it is distant, one says hawā ilayh without the initial alif.
– li-anziaʿ: nazaʿa–yanziʿu (form I), to pull something out; here it refers to removing his khuffs from his feet, for al-nazaʿ is the act of extracting something from its place.