The two socks and the two sandals (1).

This is a good and authentic hadith.

This is the view of more than one of the people of knowledge, and it is the view held by Sufyan al-Thawri, Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Shafi'i, Ahmad, and Ishaq. They said: One may wipe over the two socks even if they are not sandals (2), provided that they are thick.

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(1) An authentic hadith, and this chain of transmission was not exclusive to Abu Qays al-Awdi — who is Abd al-Rahman ibn Tharwan — rather, he was followed in it by Fadala ibn Amr — and it is also said: Umayr — al-Zahrani, and Amr ibn Wahb al-Thaqafi. Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban, and Ibn al-Turki al-Mani'i declared it authentic, and Ibn Sayyid al-Nas inclined toward declaring it authentic in his "Sharh al-Tirmidhi," folio 19.

It was also recorded by Abu Dawud (159), Ibn Majah (559), and al-Nasa'i in "al-Kubra" (129). It is in "al-Musnad" (18206) and "Sahih Ibn Hibban" (1338).

It was also recorded by Abu Bakr al-Isma'ili in his "Mu'jam" 2/703-704 via the route of Ahmad al-Dawraqi, from Yazid ibn Harun, from Dawud ibn Abi Hind, from Abu al-'Aliya al-Riyahi, from Fadala ibn Amr al-Zahrani; and by Abu al-Shaykh in "Tabaqat al-Muhaddithin bi-Asbahan" 4/14 via the route of Sa'id ibn Abd al-Rahman — who is the Basran, brother of Abu Hurra — from Muhammad ibn Sirin, from Amr ibn Wahb al-Thaqafi, both of them (Fadala and Amr) from al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, with it.

The hadith in its entirety has a supporting witness from the hadith of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari recorded by Ibn Majah (560) and al-Tahawi in "Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar" 1/97, and its chain of transmission is weak.

For wiping over the two socks, there is a supporting witness from the hadith of Thawban recorded by Ahmad (22383), and its chain of transmission is authentic.

(2) In (S) and the commentary of Ibn Sayyid al-Nas: "wearing sandals," and that is what is meant by his saying: "even if not =