The light slippers.¹

37 - The concession to wear khuffs (leather socks) during iḥrām for one who cannot find sandals.

2679 - Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd informed us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, saying: Ayyūb informed us, from ʿAmr, from Jābir ibn Zayd, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "If one cannot find an izār (waist wrapper), let him wear trousers, and if one cannot find sandals, let him wear khuffs, and let him cut them off below the ankles."²

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¹ Its chain is authentic. Ibn Abī Zāʾidah: he is Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā al-Hamdānī, and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar: he is al-ʿUmarī. It is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (3644). It has preceded in a longer form via the route of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, with the same chain, under number (2670). See also the preceding ḥadīths before it, and what preceded under number (2666).

² An authentic ḥadīth; its narrators are trustworthy, except that his statement "and let him cut them off below the ankles" is not in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās. It appears with the compiler in this book (*al-Mujtabā*), but is not found in his *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, where it is under number (3645) via Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd (the compiler's shaykh) with this chain. It is also not found in al-Tirmidhī (834), whose narration is via the route of Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ with the same chain. Nor is it found with the compiler in what preceded under numbers (2671) and (2672), nor in the sources from the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās. Ibn al-Mulaqqin mentioned it in *al-Tawḍīḥ* 12/444 and said: What casts doubt upon it is the narration of Aḥmad in his *Musnad* [2015] that Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ informed him from Ibn ʿAbbās with the ḥadīth, in which he said: I said to him: "And he did not say 'let him cut them off'?" He said: No. End quote. It appears that its inclusion in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās in this book *al-Mujtabā* is an error, for Abū Dāwūd also mentioned after the ḥadīth (1829) that Jābir ibn Zayd (meaning in this ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās) did not mention the cutting of the khuff. End quote. Furthermore, had this addition in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās been established with the early imams such as al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, and others, the ḥadīths of Ibn ʿUmar and Ibn ʿAbbās would have agreed, and they would not have resorted to reconciling them by applying the absolute to the restricted. Nevertheless, some later scholars, such as Walī al-Dīn, have deemed its chain authentic: =