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Can I pray with my trousers below my ankles, or in tight jeans?

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Trousers below the ankle and tight trousers during salah

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Yes: trousers below the ankle or tight trousers do not affect the salah. Mufti Abu Layth does not consider trousers below the ankle forbidden, since the old ruling rested on arrogance.

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Mufti Abu Layth takes two related questions. On trousers below the ankle, he says this does not affect the salah at all and that he does not believe it to be forbidden, as he has said before, nor do many scholars of the school of Madinah [?], who held that it was a custom of the past involving arrogance, and that when the arrogance no longer attaches the ruling does not continue; he adds there is no difference between inside and outside salah on this. On tight jeans, he says they do not affect a man's salah, though one may be mindful to dress more appropriately, and cites a sahih hadith in which the Prophet told the women to delay rising from sujud because the men's tightly wrapped izars defined their contours, yet he did not forbid it or say it invalidated the prayer.

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What if my trousers are below the ankle during salah, does that impact the salah? And does it impact the salah if men wear tight jeans?

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Mufti Abu Layth says trousers below the ankle or tight trousers do not affect a man's salah, and he does not consider trousers below the ankle forbidden because the past ruling rested on an arrogance that no longer attaches to the practice.

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“with men it does not impact the Salah although they can be mindful to dress perhaps more appropriately but that does not impact the Salah in any way”

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is I suppose not directly linked to the the clothes but it ties in with the question on pictures on the clothes what if there's pictures in the room that you're praying once again this does not impact your Salah okay this does not um violate your Salah in any way but um and you know and people will have and I've answered the question on whether pictures are allowed or not in in other questions and you can refer to that there something also Worthy to be considered at this stage is what if your trousers for men are below your ankles does that impact your

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Salah it does not at all and I do not believe that to be forbidden as I've highlighted uh previously and neither do many of the the within the school of Madina ABD and many have said that that was a custom of the past that involved a a sense of arrogance which if it's not if it has not persisted then the ruling does not continue you either and I don't know really that in essence there is no distinction for that ruling in or outside of Salah but people tend to make an issue out of it before they getting into Salah and they seem to think well uh I should do this for Salah you don't actually need to do that for Salah

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specifically so that's covered a lot of these uh one more question that comes to mind um first of all since we're speaking of trousers what if sometimes you get some men uh and they you know some guys will wear tight jeans sometimes and and this has been raised as an issue I've seen this being asked does that impact the Salah in any way with men it does not impact the Salah although they can be mindful to dress perhaps more appropriately but that does not impact the Salah in any way the Hadith that you find uh the sah Hadith which in which the prophet Sall

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advises the women to delay uh in their sujud before they rise it explains that the men that they would uh the isar the kind of songs that they would wear they would be wrapped so tight it says that because they were so tightly wrapped that it would Define everything clearly when they were in sujud The Contours and everything and so and yet the prophet did not forbid that he did not say it violated their Salah in any way so just to keep that in mind okay so these are things to do with uh clothing within Salah another good question that comes to mind right here what about

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2017, April 2). Can I pray with my trousers below my ankles, or in tight jeans? [Video, segment 2017-04-02-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/11/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Can I pray with my trousers below my ankles, or in tight jeans?}},
  year = {2017},
  month = {4},
  date = {2017-04-02},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/bin9uqpopma/s/11/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2017-04-02-S11, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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