Is it permissible to apply masah over bare foot?
It is stated in the Holy Qur’an about ablution: “O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles.” (Ma’idah, 5/6).
All schools of the ahl al-sunnah agree that it is fardh to wash the body parts commanded in this verse, which are face, lower arms with elbows, and feet with ankles (Ibn Rushd, Bidayah, I, 15-16).
The hadiths stating that the Prophet and his Companions would wash their feet while performing ablution (that have been narrated close to the degree of tawatur) (Bukhari, Wudu 7, 24, 28, 38, 39, 41, 42; Muslim,Taharah,3,4,18; Ibn Hanbal,al-Musnad, XI, 558, 672; see. Kattani, Nazm al-mutanasir, p. 59) are the proofs that washing feet during ablution is a fardh. Moreover, when the Prophet Muhammad (saw) saw that some people were washing their feet like applying masah (wiping) over them and water did nor reach their heels, he said, “Woe to (dry) heels, because of Hell-fire.” (Bukhari, Wudu 27, 29; Muslim, Taharah, 25-30). Also, the Prophet (saw) warned a person who left a dry part on his feet during ablution by saying, “Go back and perform a complete ablution” (Muslim, Taharah, 31; Abu Dawud, Taharah, 67; Ibn Majah, Taharah, 139), which is also an evidence that washing feet in ablution is a fardh.
Considering the verse and hadiths above, scholars of Islamic jurisprudence do not consider it permissible to apply masah (wipe) over bare foot in ablution.
Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWAS
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