# Did the Prophet foresee women travelling alone safely?

*The prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim: a woman travelling alone from al-Hira*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/7/
- Date: 2018-04-22 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Hadith Analysis & Fatwa: Women Can Travel Without a Mahram - Mufti Abu Layth (27:28–30:39)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=1648s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/

**Topics:** Interaction between men and women; The life of the Prophet

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Yes: Mufti Abu Layth cites the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a lone woman travelling from Iraq to Makkah, which Adi lived to see.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's prophecy to Adi ibn Hatim of a woman travelling alone from al-Hira to Makkah came true as stability came to the region.

**Evidence, his words at 29:23:** “yet he says wallahi in my old age I saw the the hyena a woman coming from that place to Makkah on her own not fearing nobody except Allah but that much stability had come about in the region” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8GjvVONMs&t=1763s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth cites a hadith in al-Bukhari in which the Prophet told Adi ibn Hatim that if he lived long he would see a woman travel alone from al-Hira, in Iraq, to Makkah and perform tawaf fearing none but Allah. Adi wondered how she could pass the raiding tribes, yet said that in his old age he saw it happen, so much stability had come to the region. Mufti calls these amazing hadith that people have turned a blind eye to. He says some Saudi scholars, whom he names only in garbled form, have themselves rejected the claim that a woman cannot travel alone, and that another has a fatwa on a woman travelling by aeroplane, adding that this ruling has existed in the schools.

## Sources and names cited

- report: you will see a woman travel from al-hira to makkah and circumambulate the kaba fearing none but allah (Adi ibn Hatim; in Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)
- Adi ibn Hatim
- Sahih al-Bukhari

## Transcript (machine tier, 27:28–30:39)

[26:50] three days and more this was the Prophet trying to safeguard the women because yes men were targets too but women were greater and Sina softer targets by these people okay so this was why the prophesy Ali Salim had said and how how can we prove this well let's go to another hadith right now I want to take you to a hadith which is also in Bukhari now this

[27:27] hadith in which the Prophet is addressing a companion by the name of our idea even hurt him okay I did not hurt him he's speaking to the prophet and the Prophet says to him he says to him yeah I D do you know where I'll hear is an era is a place a location it's actually located in Iraq it's very far from the Arabian Peninsula especially in that day and age and he says you know I've heard of it this place called adhira

[28:05] the Prophet says that the Prophet says to him yeah Rd the Internet's bigger hurts that if life stretches for you that if you live a long life you will see litera Hina you will certainly see the ina a woman traveler female traveler setting off from Al Hara coming to Makkah what a too full bait and she will

[28:45] do the world on her own Latasha without a half of alone she will fear none except Allah and in another rewire it says to chicken Athena that the prophet said to him that the female traveler and the huge be lady with a ritual without anybody to neighbour her on her own she will come and she will come to Mecca and she will do tow off not fearing anybody but Allah and I'd even heard him say that I thought when the Prophet said this I was

[29:23] thinking to myself but where's where is that happening from all the massacre bloodshed and rioting that these people the the looting that these tribes are doing how could she come past all of this see even he is thinking of the danger yet he says wallahi in my old age I saw the the hyena a woman coming from that place to Makkah on her own not fearing nobody except Allah but that much stability had come about in the region during that time and the prophecy

[30:01] of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam had manifested and these are the amazing kind of hadith that we see that people have turned a blind eye to and this is why certain scholars they have been like Abdullah Marcel Oh bacon who is a Salafi kind of Saudi scholar who said that are people crazy that are saying a woman can't travel on her own where are they from this hadith and people like cher admin Parsa Mohammed II Nadja with even Java dramedy as well but she happened Casa Mohammed II from Saudi Arabia and

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment jp8GjvVONMs/s/7. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/7/

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