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When the sky opens and the cold bites: wiping over socks, tayammum, combining prayers for rain, and the rain prayer.

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Questions in this season

  1. What is the second chain of narration for Bilal's hadith on wiping over socks, which al-Tabarani narrated and which includes Yazid ibn Abi Ziyad?

  2. Is it permissible to wipe over a thin sock (khuff) or not, and does one who does so not have his ritual impurity lifted and his prayer not valid?

  3. What is the ruling regarding someone who wiped over short socks out of ignorance for a year or more?

  4. What is the preponderant opinion concerning one who takes off his khuff (leather socks) after having wiped over them and before the expiration of the period for wiping, and does taking off the khuff invalidate wudu according to the Hanafis?

  5. Is it permissible to wipe over socks if I feel a liquid discharge after performing ablution but before fully putting on the socks, given that there is an excuse that makes ablution difficult?

  6. How can one pray and perform ablution (wudu') when there is a bandage on the the nose, blood is flowing from it, and it cannot be touched?

  7. Is it permissible to wipe over socks?

  8. Is it permissible to wipe over socks that do not cover the ankles and some of the top of the foot, and is it a condition to wear them after performing ablution (wudu') to be allowed to wipe over them?

  9. Does ablution become void if one wipes over a bandage that then moves slightly but does not fall off?

  10. Is it permissible to perform ablution without socks, then enter the bathroom, then perform ablution and wipe over the socks?

  11. Is it permissible to wipe over transparent socks, or if one of them has a hole, or if they are of the transparent, patterned type?

  12. Is it permissible to wipe over transparent socks, or must they be opaque?