#496: Ruling on Wearing and Praying with Tight Clothes
QUESTION
” Is it permissible for males to wear all these tight-fitting trousers like carrot and so on. Plus can one use it to pray?”
ANSWER
Alhamdulillāh. Bārakallāhu fīkum.
The rule that bind the wearing of clothes are three:
1. That it covers the ‘Awrah loosely in such a way that the ‘Awrah is neither seen directly nor felt.
2. That it isn’t of the clothes that are known to be of the opposite sex.
3. That it is not of the specific clothes of the Kuffār.
For this reason, some of the Ulamā in the past disliked the wearing of Breeches.
OK, breeches are short trousers fastened just below the knee, and are very tight. They bring out the shapes of the Male organ most times. They are now chiefly worn for riding horses.
It was disliked because of the tightness that shows the shape.
Shaykh Muhammad Nāsiruddin Al-Albānī has a Fatwa disliking tight-fitted trousers in this regard.
This is also the position of our Shaykh Muhammad Al-Hasan Ad-Dadu – hafidhahullāh.
On whether it can be used to observe Salāt, the majority of the Ulamā consider it permissible as long as it covers the Awrah, though they disliked it.
Imām An-Nawawī – rahimahullāh – said in the Majmū’
: ” فلو ستر اللون ووصف حجم البشرة كالركبة والألية ونحوها صحت الصلاة فيه لوجود الستر ، وحكي الدارمي وصاحب البيان وجهاً أنه لا يصح إذا وصف الحجم ، وهو غلط ظاهر
“And if it conceals the complexion and exposes the shape of the body such as the knee, the buttocks and its likes, the Salāt is valid in it due to the presence of the cover. Ad-Dārimī and the author of Al-Bayān quoted a position that maintains that it (the Salāt) is not valid if it exposes the shape. This is a clear error.”
Imam An-Nawawi held that the position that invalidates the Salāt is wrong.
It is mentioned in the Mālikī book Al-Fawākihu Ad-Dawānī:
وَيُجْزِئُ الرَّجُلَ الصَّلاةُ فِي الثَّوْبِ الْوَاحِدِ ) وَيُشْتَرَطُ فِيهِ عَلَى جِهَةِ النَّدْبِ كَوْنُهُ كَثِيفًا بِحَيْثُ لا يَصِفُ وَلا يَشِفُّ ، وَإِلا كُرِهَ وَكَوْنُهُ سَاتِرًا لِجَمِيعِ جَسَدِهِ . فَإِنْ سَتَرَ الْعَوْرَةَ الْمُغَلَّظَةَ فَقَطْ أَوْ كَانَ مِمَّا يَصِفُ أَيْ يُحَدِّدُ الْعَوْرَةَ . . . كُرِهَتْ الصَّلاةُ فِيهِ مَعَ الإِعَادَةِ فِي الْوَقْتِ
“And Salāt in a single cloth suffices a man. And it is a condition, by way of recommendation, that it is thick in such a way that it neither brings out the shape nor exposes. Otherwise, it is disliked. And it should cover the entire body. If it covers the severe nakedness only or is of the (clothes) that brings out the shape or the contours… It is disliked to observe Salāt in it, and prescribed to repeat the Salāt within its time frame.”
And the Hanbalī Imām Al-Bahūtī – rahimahullāh – said in Ar-Rawdu Al-Murbi’
ولا يعتبر أن لا يصف حجم العضو ، لأنه لا يمكن التحرز عنه ”
“And that it doesn’t bring out the contours of the organs is not a condition as this can hardly be entirely avoided”
Therefore, as said, it is disliked but permissible to pray in it according to the majority.
Whereas the minority position maintained that it were not valid to observe Salāt in such a cloth.
Allāhu A’alam.
Bārakallāhu fīkum
Jazākumullāhu Khayran.
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