- The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) permitted the traveler to wipe over his leather socks for three days and nights, and the resident for one day and night—if he purifies himself and then wears his leather socks. It was recorded by Ibn Khuzaymah in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1/96/192), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/50), al-Dāraquṭnī in his "Sunan" (1/194/1), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in "al-Tamhīd" (11/155)—and the wording is theirs—, al-Shāfiʿī in "al-Umm" (1/29), Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (1/179), Ibn al-Jārūd in "al-Muntaqá" (39/87), Ibn Ḥibbān (72/184 - al-Mawārid), Ibn Mājah (556), and al-Bayhaqī in his "Sunan" (1/281), all through various chains from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd: narrated by al-Muhājir ibn Mukhallad Abū Mukhallad from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakrah from his father from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): that he permitted ... the ḥadīth. Some of them narrated it from him; except that they replaced: (al-Muhājir) with: (Khālid al-Ḥadhāʾ). Al-Bayhaqī recorded it (1/276), and said: "The narration of the group is more likely to be preserved." Then he narrated from al-Tirmidhī that he asked al-Bukhārī: Which ḥadīth do you consider the most authentic regarding the timing for wiping over the leather socks? He said: "The ḥadīth of Ṣafwān ibn ʿAssāl, and the ḥadīth of Ibn Abī Bakrah is good." I say: The ḥadīth of Ṣafwān was authenticated by al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Ḥibbān, and it is included in "al-Irwāʾ" (1/140/104), and its chain is good, so the ḥadīth is authentic; because al-Muhājir ibn Mukhallad is disputed, and it was authenticated by al-Shāfiʿī, as narrated by al-Bayhaqī in "al-Maʿrifah" (1/342) where he said: