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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Juristic Questions Wiping The Feet Or Washing Them In Wudu’ The Muslim scholars disagreed upon the kind of ablution of the feet from among the parts included in wudu’. The Sunni jurisprudents, including the four imams,[^1] determined that washing the feet in wudu’ was obligatory.

Dawood bin Ali and an-Nassir lil-Haqq, who were from among the imams of the Zaydites, said it was obligatory to perform both of washing and wiping the feet.[^2] Some of them might say that it was optional to choose between washing and wiping.[^3] The Shia, according to their pure imams, thought that wiping the feet was prescribed by the holy Quran.[^4] The evidence of the Shia The evidence of the Shia for this matter was the Quranic verse ( O you who believe!

when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows and wipe your heads and your feet to the ( two ) ankles. 5:6) Imam ar-Razi sufficed us in showing the point of the argument in this verse when he declared: “The evidence of those, who thought that wiping the feet was obligatory, was based upon the two kinds of reciting the phrase ( and your feet ) mentioned in the verse of wudu’.

Ibn Katheer, Hamza, Abu Amr an Aasim recited the phrase in genitive and Nafi’, ibn Aamir and Aasim recited it in accusative. Reciting it in genitive determined that ( your feet ) was coupled to ( your heads ) and then as it was obligatory to wipe the head it would be obligatory to wipe the feet.

As for reciting it in accusative, it also determined that it was obligatory to wipe the feet because the saying ( and wipe your heads ) made ( your heads ) as object and ( your feet ) was coupled to ( your heads ) so both of them were objects of the verb ( wipe )” This was his very saying.[^5] But he said: “Many traditions were narrated about the obligation of washing the feet (in wudu’). Washing included wiping but wiping didn’t.

So washing was nearer in taking precaution and hence it had to be performed in wudu’ as wajib.[^6] Therefore it had to be determined that washing the feet would replace wiping them…” You will see the thought of the infallible imams of the Prophet’s progeny and their followers about the traditions talking about washing the feet soon inshallah.