58 – On the authority of ʿUmar — as a Companion report (mawqūf) — and on the authority of Anas — as a Prophetic report (marfūʿ):
“If one of you performs wudu, then puts on his khuffs, let him wipe over them, pray in them, and not remove them—if he so wishes—except because of major ritual impurity.”
It was recorded by al-Dāraqutnī and by al-Ḥākim, who declared it sound. (1)

Authenticity grading:
The hadith is anomalous (shādh).
The reliably preserved ruling about wiping over khuffs and similar footwear is that it is time-restricted: one day and one night for a resident, and three days and nights for a traveller.

Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd discussed this report, in both its mawqūf and marfūʿ forms, in his book al-Ilmām. He said: “Al-Dāraqutnī related it through the route of Asad, whom al-Kūfī, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Bazzār deemed trustworthy. Al-Ḥākim added: It is also transmitted from Anas as a marfūʿ hadith with a sound chain, whose narrators to the last of them are reliable, yet it is extremely anomalous.”

The editor—may Allah pardon him—remarks: An anomaly in a hadith does not negate the trustworthiness of its transmitters. Accordingly, the author of al-Tanqīḥ states: “Its chain is strong, but its contradiction of a narration reported by someone more reliable necessitates rejecting it and classifying it among the weak hadiths.”

Vocabulary note:
• “and not remove them” (wa-lā yakhlaʿhumā): the particle lā is formally prohibitive, yet here it is not intended as an absolute prohibition, as shown by the phrase “if he so wishes.” The meaning is simply: he should not take the khuffs off his feet.