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From: jnawaz%skat.usc.edu@usc.edu (Jemshed Nawaz)
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Subject: Re: Questions
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In article <1990Sep26.064354.11098@nntp-server.caltech.edu> stx7175@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>
>Assalammu'alaikum,

Wa-alikum-Asalam, 

>    
>     First let me introduce myself.  I'm a muslim from Malaysia and studying in
>U.S. for more than 2 years. 
>
>Second question:
>     I've seen some of the brothers wore shoes when they were praying and when
>they were taking wudhuk.
>     From what I've learned, we must wear a clean cloth when we're praying.
>Since shoes are dirty, we cannot wear it.
>

I would like to share the following information with you:

		ON THE VALIDITY OF "MASSAH"

How far Massah (passing wet hand) on socks meets the requirement of Salah
(prayers)?

	Massah on socks is a sunnah of the Prophet(SAW). According to Hafiz
Ibn Hijr (Fateh al-Bari), a group of 'muhadithin' vouch for Massah on the 
authority of an uninterrupted chain of narrators. Some 'muhadithin' have 
cited the number of such narrators as eighty, including the ten prominent
companions about whom the Prophet(SAW) vouched that they were the dwellers 
of Paradise.
	One of the most authoritative hadith is the one narrated by Jarir(razi-
Allah). After answering the call of nature (urination), he performed ablution 
and did Massah on his socks. Thereupon, people asked him, "You do this?" "Yes,"
he responded, "I have seen the Prophet(SAW) that after having urinated, he 
performed ablution and did Massah on his socks." Since Jarir embraced Islam 
after the revelation of Surah Al-Maidah (which carried the commandments for
Wudhu), people accorded great weight to his narration.
	

>     Please explain to me why they do this??
>
>   Please Post or Email me.
>   Thank you.
>
>-Mohd Fadhil
>
>   

Jemshed Nawaz