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What did the Maliki scholars say about women travelling with a safe group?

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Al-Baji on safe caravans, and Imam Malik's ordering of the travel hadith

LessonRecorded 22 Apr 2018Clarifying False Hadith Which Insult IslamSegment 8 of 9 in the recording2018-04-22-S08

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Mufti Abu Layth cites al-Baji that a woman is safe without a mahram in large caravans and busy highways, and reads Imam Malik's ordering of the hadith as showing they were about safety.

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Mufti Abu Layth quotes Abu al-Walid al-Baji, the Andalusian Maliki who died in 474 AH, commenting on the Muwatta: the hadith of Abu Sa'id forbidding a woman a day-and-night journey without a mahram concerns a small number of travellers or a woman alone, but large caravans and busy safe highways are like marketplaces, where a woman is safe without a mahram or female companion. Mufti notes that the Malikis often refer to scholars by their kunya. He says that Imam Malik, in the chapter on a woman travelling without a mahram, first brings the hadith that one traveller is a devil, two are two devils and three are a company, before the hadith forbidding a woman to travel without a mahram. Mufti asks why the Prophet would call two travellers devils, and says it was religious rhetoric used in that age to safeguard people in hostile territory.

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Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's calling two travellers devils was religious rhetoric used in that age to safeguard people in hostile territory.

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“now you tell me why is the prophet calling two people traveling Devils this was religious rhetoric too kind that was used in the day and age to safeguard them because there was hostile territory”

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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

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even chef Dada has a fatwa on a woman traveling by aeroplane and things like this and this ruling has existed in in the methods and I'd like to quote to you from this is a commentary on the motto of Imam Malik by the legend from Muslim Spain I would Walid al Burgi who's almost from a thousand years ago it passes away in 4/9 for Hillary now there is a hadith the with the prop this comes speaking about the head jewel

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Murat and that a woman needs a guardian if she's gonna go on Hajj okay now check this out I will Walid al bhaji I will do little bhaji he says okay the hadith of Abu Zeid Raad rely on Allah Martin took me noble Emil Artin and to suffer Mesilla - you mean well laila allama adama I mean mean had that this hadith of abu saeed that a woman cannot go a day or night journey without Muharram he says this is not an obligatory journey this is generally in blah blah blah he gives

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this example and then he says well Karl Imam Oh able to elite are below elite and this is a style by the way of the legacy of our scholars especially the Maliki's and other people they often used cuneus okay Abu I will relieve they always usually went with their cuneus even after but always goes with Abu Omar and hence you have a belief in front of you people he says what would you like Andy right so he's speaking about who you should go with and so mass Allah when Allah had led that care about the

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house happiness he says this which some of our Lama said that oh a woman must go accompanied and stuff like this in in the man who are fee Hal in the mouth sorry the muscle and not that about a woman must or neuron that he says this which some of our ulema have mentioned that traveling with if you're accompanied by the certain relatives that you didn't get on with for example he speaks about like they give the example of raba he says in nama who are fee Holly in Fiat while other Delia's here this is when we're speaking about a very small number of people traveling or

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if the woman is traveling on her own now listen to this for America waffle Allah or diamond this is almost a thousand years ago says as two large caravans what Oracle mosh terracotta la mera al Munna and as two great highways when many people go on these highways and they are safe he says for in ha I'm the mythril balada Latia Kuna feel us work what to job these to me are like marketplaces where everybody is mixed for in Menomonee a

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saloon a dune the Muharram in wa lam raha a woman is safely without any guardian all without any female companion a woman can go to the marketplaces and he says and this is what imam Hosea he had also taught and that is from his and what is great as well you see the legend in our Malik when he transmits this hadith in his mother in his German where he's speaking about a woman traveling with a do Muharram he begins he brings three a hadith in that book and he begins it by the hadith

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that the Prophet said two men traveling or shaytan's or they like one is a Shaitaan two or two shaytans but three three of companions why was the Prophet and then Imam Malik wings the hadith let not a woman travel except with the Muharram now you tell me why is the prophet calling two people traveling Devils this was religious rhetoric too kind that was used in the day and age to safeguard them because there was hostile territory okay so this is to kind of bring to our understanding

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people the that women can travel of course they can travel and I was reading a fatwa by some selfies they said Oh some people say that look they said that shared Mustafa's our car from sham in the past had given the fatwa woman can travel by aeroplane it's absolutely fine and she can be received on the other end and people like Cher said that as well and so somebody said no I was reading the criticism and they said because really the safety that these people are saying is in airports

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2018-04-22-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/8/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, April 22). What did the Maliki scholars say about women travelling with a safe group? [Video, segment 2018-04-22-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/8/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "What did the Maliki scholars say about women travelling with a safe group?" Video, segment 2018-04-22-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 22, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jp8gjvvonms/s/8/
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