357. Wudhu

1. If someone makes wudhu or takes a purification bath then puts on socks, they don’t have to wash their feet the next time they need to make wudhu. 

They can just wipe over their socks for the next 24 hours if they’re a resident and for the next three days if they’re traveling. 

But they must put socks on to avail this concession 

2. If you are taking a bath/shower to purify yourself from MAJOR impurity, (like after menses or Janaabah) and you wash your entire body and rinse your mouth and nose then you don’t HAVE to make wudhu separately although it’s Sunnah to make wudhu first. 

But if you’re just showering to cool off or clean yourself WITHOUT the  intention of purification from major impurity then you should make a separate wudhu. 

And it’s good to do the wudhu in the beginning. 

Shaikh Ibn Uthaymeen said:

“If a person takes a bath because of janaabah, then it takes the place of wudhu’, because 

Allaah says: 

“If you are in a state of Janaaba (i.e. after a sexual discharge), purify yourselves (bathe your whole body)”

[al-Maa’idah 5:6]

If a person is junub and he immerses himself in a bathtub or river or the like, intending thereby to cleanse himself of janaabah, and he rinses his mouth and nose, then he purifies himself from both minor and major impurity, because Allaah, may He be exalted, only enjoined us to purify ourselves from janaabah, i.e., we should ensure that water reaches all parts of the body when doing ghusl. 

But it is better for the person who is doing ghusl to do wudhu’ first, because the Prophet Sal Allaahu Alaiyhi wa Sallam used to wash his private parts after washing his hands, then he would do wudhu’ as for prayer, then he would pour water over his head, and when he thought that it had reached the skin, he poured water over his head three times, then he would wash the rest of his body. 

But if a person takes a bath to clean himself or to cool himself down, then this does not take the place of wudhu’, because that is not an act of worship, rather it is just an ordinary action, although Islam prescribes cleanliness. 

Whatever the case, if the bath is taken to cool down or get clean, then it does not take the place of wudoo’.”

(Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 11/question no. 182)

And Allaah knows best