Zirr ibn Hubaysh (RA) narrated: I met Safwan ibn Assal al-Muradiy to ask him about wiping over socks (during ablution). he asked, “What has brought you here, O Zirr?” I said that acquisition of knowledge had brought me to him. He commented, “The angels spread their wings for the seeker of knowledge, pleased at what he desires.” I said that I was confused about wiping over the socks following answer of natures call, though I am one of the sahabah of the Prophet ﷺ . “So, I have come to ask you if you have heard him say anything about it.” He said, “Yes. He had commanded us that when we were on a journey or travellers we should not remove our socks for three days and three nights. But, bath against sexual defilement is an exception. As for ablution after answering nature’s call or awakening from sleep, the socks may be retained” I asked him if he had heard the Prophet ﷺ say anything about love. He said “Yes. We were with Allah’s Messenger on a journey. While we were with him, a villager called him in a loud, sonorous voice, “O Muhammad ﷺ ! So, Allah’s Messenger ﷺ commanded him in the same tone, ‘Come.’ We aid to him, Woe to you! soften your voice. You are before the Prophet ﷺ and you are forbidden this (behavriour).’ He said, ‘By Allah, I will not lower my. voice.’ He added, ‘A man loves his people though he has not met them.’ The Prophet ﷺ said, On the day of resurrection, a man will be with those he loves.’ Then, he did not cease to narrate to us till he said, ‘There is a door to the west whose width is like a journey of forty or seventy years.’ Sufyan said that the door was to the north. Allah created it on the very day He created the heavens and the earth. It lies open for repentance and will not be shut till the sun will rises from it (that is, the west).” [Ahmed 18113, Ibn e Majah 4070]