Al-Mughirah bin Shubah reported: I was in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the expedition of Tabuk. He abandoned the main road before the dawn prayer, and I also did the same along with him. The Prophet ﷺ made his camel kneel down and (went to ) relieve himself. He then came back and I poured water upon his hands from the skin-vessel. He then washed his hands and face. He tried to get his forearms out (of the gown), but the sleeves of the gown were too narrow, so he entered back both his hands, and brought them out from beneath the gown. He washed his forearms up to the elbows and wiped his head and wiped over his socks. 80 He then mounted (his camel) and we began to proceed until we found people offering the prayer. They brought forward Abdur-Rahman bin Awf who was leading them in prayer. The Prophet ﷺ stood in the row side by side with other Muslims. He performed the second rak’ah of the prayer behind Abdur-Rahman bin Awf. Then Abdur-Rahman uttered salutation. The Prophet ﷺ stood to perform the remaining rak’ah of the prayer. The Muslims were alarmed. They began to utter tasbih (Subhan Allah) presuming that they had offered prayer before the Prophet ﷺ had done. When he uttered the salutation (i. e. finished his prayer), he said: You were right, or (he said) you did well.

Al-Mughirah bin Shubah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ performed ablution and wiped his forelock and turban. Another version says: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiped his socks and his forelock and his turban. Bakr said: I heard it from Ibn al-Mughirah.

Urwah bin al-Mughirah reported his father as saying: We accompanied the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to a caravan, and I had a jug of water. He went to relieve himself and came back. I came to him with the jug of water and poured upon him. He washed his hands and face. He had a tight-sleeved Syrian woolen gown. He tried to get his forearms out, but the sleeve of the gown was very narrow, so he brought his hands out from under the gown. I then bent down to take off his socks. But he said to me: Leave them, for my feet were clean when I put them in, and he only wiped over them. Yunus said on the authority of al-Shabi that Urwah narrated his tradition from his father before him, and his father reported it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Al-Mughirah bin Shubah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ lagged behind (in a journey). He then narrated this story saying: Then we came to people. Abdur-Rahman was leading them in the dawn prayer. When he perceived the presence of the Prophet ﷺ, he intended to retire. The Prophet ﷺ asked him to continue and I and the Prophet ﷺoffered one rak’ah of prayer behind him. When he had pronounced the salutation, the Prophet ﷺ got up and offered the rak’ah which had been finished before, and he made no addition to it. Abu Dawud said: Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, Ibn al-Zubair and Ibn Umar hold the opinion that whoever gets an odd number of the rak’ahs of prayer, he should perform two prostrations on account of forgetfulness.

Abu Abdur-Rahman al-Sulami said that he witnessed Abdur-Rahman bin Awf asking Bilal about the ablution of the Prophet ﷺ. Bilal said: He went out to relieve himself. Then I brought water for him and he performed ablution, and wiped over his turban and socks.

Abu zurah bin Amr bin Jarir said: Jarir urinated. He then performed ablution and wiped over the socks. He said: What can prevent me from wiping (over the socks); I saw the Messenger of Allah (doing so). They (the people) said: This (action of yours) might be valid before the revelation of Surat al-Ma’idah. He replied: I embraced Islam after the revelation of Surat al-Ma’idah.

Narrated Abu Musa al-Ashari: Negus presented to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ two black and simple socks. He put them on; then he performed ablution and wiped over them. Musaddad reported this tradition from Dulham bin Salih. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by the people of Basrah alone.

Al-Mughirah bin Shubah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiped over the socks and I said: Messenger of Allah, have you forgotten ? He said: My Lord has commanded me to do this.