Rain and winter

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. 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?

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

  3. 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?

  4. 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?

  5. Is it permissible to wipe over socks?

  6. 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?

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

  8. 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?

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

  10. Is it permissible to perform ablution while wearing socks and then pray without them, or to perform ablution without socks and then put them on and pray while wearing them?

  11. What is the ruling on wiping over socks after wearing them for two hours or more from the time of ablution, and what do scholars say about that, and where can one find the hadiths and jurisprudential books specialized in this matter?

  12. Is it permissible to wipe over socks that have many very small holes, seeing that they are designed in this manner?