it is no harm to wipe upon it. For if it folds, the place of wudu becomes exposed. It is not required that they be lined with leather. Ahmad said: Wiping upon the jawrabayn [socks] is reported from seven or eight of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). Ibn al-Mundhir said: The permissibility of wiping upon the jawrabayn is narrated from nine of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): Ali, Ammar, Ibn Mas'ud, Anas, Ibn Umar, al-Bara', Bilal, Ibn Abi Awfa, and Sahl ibn Sa'd. This is the position held by 'Ata', al-Hasan, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, al-Nakha'i, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, al-A'mash, al-Thawri, al-Hasan ibn Salih, Ibn al-Mubarak, Ishaq, Ya'qub, and Muhammad. Abu Hanifa, Malik, al-Awza'i, Mujahid, 'Amr ibn Dinar, al-Hasan ibn Muslim, and al-Shafi'i said: It is not permissible to wipe upon them unless they are soled, because it is not possible to continuously walk in them, so wiping upon them is not permissible, like thin ones. Our argument is what al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba narrated, that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) wiped upon his jawrabayn and sandals. Al-Tirmidhi said: This is a hasan sahih hadith. This indicates that the sandals were not upon them, because if they were, he would not have mentioned the sandals; for it is not said: "I wiped upon the khuff and its sandal." Furthermore, the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) wiped upon the jawrabayn, and no dissenter appeared among them in their era, so it constitutes a consensus. Also, it is a covering for the place of the obligatory wash that remains stable on the foot, so wiping upon it is permissible, like a sandal. As for their argument that it is not possible to continuously walk in them, we say: Wiping upon them is not permissible unless it is of such type that it remains stable by itself and it is possible to continuously walk in it. As for the thin one, it is not a covering.

Section: Ahmad was asked about a sock made of rags: may one wipe upon it? He disliked the rags. Perhaps Ahmad disliked them because they are usually light and do not remain stable by themselves. If they are like a wool sock in terms of thickness and stability, then there is no difference. Ahmad said in one place: Wiping upon the jawrab does not suffice him until it is a thick jawrab that stands upright on his leg and does not...