Source Of Doing Masah On Feet: Sunnah Or Hadith?

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Source Of Doing Masah On Feet: Sunnah Or Hadith?

Posted by Abdullah AbdulRahman on April 13, 2022 at 7:23 am

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1) We get that a traveler can do massah on feet for three days while a resident (non traveler) can do for one day (even if resident doesn’t have any difficulty taking off socks) (if i am right). Does we get this from Sunnah or Hadith or by Quran?

2) If it’s proved by Hadith only then this is a thing that can be known by other than a Prophet, because how can a Fiqhi from Quran and Sunnah decide to do for resident one day and for travellers three days (like specification of time)?

Umer replied 3 years ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
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Source Of Doing Masah On Feet: Sunnah Or Hadith?

Umer updated 3 years ago 2 Members · 7 Replies
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Umer
Moderator April 13, 2022 at 4:15 pm

For Answer by Ghamidi Sahab, please refer to the video below from 13:24 to 14:46 and from 16:06 to 24:22

https://youtu.be/U5Gpf3MOzig?t=804
Abdullah AbdulRahman
Member April 17, 2022 at 1:08 pm

So then, masah on feet have we got through ijma. But Prophet SAW didn’t start it as religion? Like it is not Sunnah but we have got this through Ijma?
- Umer
  Moderator April 18, 2022 at 6:23 am
  
  It was not instituted as Sunnah, but it is a kind of action (amal) that was bound to be transferred through amali tawatur of Muslims along with Akhbar-i-Ahad.
Abdullah AbdulRahman
Member April 18, 2022 at 12:34 pm

But here comes a thing that, we see many people do masah for one day on socks without any reason (as according to them Prophet SAW has permitted). So if that’s right then how can this thing be permitted except by Prophet SAW that you can do masah for one day on socks even without any reason?
- Umer
  Moderator April 19, 2022 at 7:42 am
  
  The reason is ‘mushaqqat‘ involved in taking off one’s socks and washing one’s feet. This is in line with the same principle of Tayammum mentioned in Quran.
Abdullah AbdulRahman
Member April 19, 2022 at 1:07 pm

So on that basis the people who have made it a normal routine thing and without any reason do masah, are they doing wrong then?
- Umer
  Moderator April 20, 2022 at 6:33 am
  
  No they are not wrong because removing socks everytime for Wuzu create the kind of hardship (‘mushaqqat’) for which such a relaxation is in-line with the principle.