Recordings › Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth · 22 Apr 2018 › Segment 2 of 9
Can a woman go on Hajj without a mahram?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth reports that al-Shafi'i allowed a woman to go with a group of women and Imam Malik with any safe company, while Abu Hanifa required a mahram for journeys over three days.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the issue then arose of a woman obliged to perform Hajj, as the Quran instructs, who has no guardian to go with her, and that scholars disagreed widely. He reports that some of the salaf such as Ibn Sirin [?], and al-Shafi'i and his school, said she can go in a group of women, while Imam Malik had a very open view that she can go with any safe company, men or not. Mufti cites a Maliki commentator on Sahih al-Bukhari from al-Andalus, over a thousand years ago, saying the majority of scholars held this, and a report that Ibn Umar performed Hajj accompanied by women who were his neighbours. He reports that Abu Hanifa required a mahram only for a journey of more than three days, such as Hajj, and that the Hanbalis seem to have gone along with that.
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companions upon which this whole understanding rests and is built okay of a woman needing a companion now like I mentioned most scholars all accepted this was not talking about a woman just leaving the house and going about the town this was talking about a journey most scholars in the past said that a woman cannot go on a journey journey unless she's a company this was their understanding based on these kind of
honey then came the issue of Oh what about the Hajj if a woman has to go to the Hajj because Allah is telling in the Koran that we he's stating his instructing Oh - tada I'm income that you know who well alayhi Allen a CHL BT that that people have an obligation to go perform the Hajj so here there is a huge disagreement amongst amongst scholars on who can perform the Hajj a woman let's say a woman doesn't have a guardian to go with her
okay now according to certain scholars she can still go that is not a problem okay now amongst them were people like from the cellar if even a serene even a debate side debate these are like even a job a student of it Nappers the chef a chef area the chef or a method said she can go in a group of women Imam Malik had a very open understanding he said she doesn't she can just go with anybody as long as she's accompanied she can go
whether they are men or not but as long as he they used the term rough patent Munna a safe company and they open up all the great Maliki legend from Muslim Spain uses the referee he says the majority of the scholars are upon this whether they are or not one can argue but this is what I've been about all them from Muslim Spain over a thousand years ago in his commentary on sahih bukhari writes in his understanding the majority of scholars are fonda and he says there's a hadith from ignore Omar that he would do Hajj
with with with neighboring with women who were his neighbors they would come with him when he would go to do Hajj so that's their kind of understanding okay now then in this the hanafi madhhab imam abu hanifa said that if the journey was more than three days like it was a lengthy journey the hajj then she can only go if she has a Muharram and the humbly seemed to go alongside with that as this is hearted Narada way as well in his method and I believe a booth phone
as well so these are some of the classical understandings ok now then came another problem you see what's interesting is this problem came that oh well what if a woman was kidnapped and she's dead you know it just goes to show how some of the ala ma thought they say like Oh what if she's kidnapped or an inflamed and taken far away let's say she's taken away a hundred miles
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@misc{abulayth-2018-04-22-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Can a woman go on Hajj without a mahram?}}, year = {2018}, month = {4}, date = {2018-04-22}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-04-22-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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