Muwatta Malik 75
موطأ مالك#75SahihThese are the words of a Successor — the generation after the Companions — not of the Prophet ﷺ.
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، أَنَّهُ رَأَى أَبَاهُ يَمْسَحُ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ قَالَ وَكَانَ لاَ يَزِيدُ إِذَا مَسَحَ عَلَى الْخُفَّيْنِ عَلَى أَنْ يَمْسَحَ ظُهُورَهُمَا وَلاَ يَمْسَحُ بُطُونَهُمَا .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that he saw his father wiping over his leather socks. He said, "When he wiped over his socks he would never do more than wipe the tops and he would not wipe the bottoms
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave — one dissenting opinion no longer speaks for all of them. If any scholar calls a narration fabricated, that verdict is shown instead, whatever the others say. Each scholar's own wording:
In-book reference: 2:44