HAJJ AND UMRAH GUIDE

The conditions which make Hajj obligatory upon a man or woman are:
An additional additionai condition for the woman
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Islam lslanl
Being Berng of sound
mind
Having t-tau,ng,eacneO reaChed
puberty puoerry
:
Freedom Freodom
(not (nat being a slave)
Is ls that she be accompanied by a mahram.
He is a man who can travel
with her, like a husband or someone she can never marry, such as her
father, falher, son, brother, brolher, milk brother, stepfather, stepson, daughter's
husband, etc
The evidence for lor this is in the report of Ibn'Abbas, lbn 'Abbas, that lhat he heard the
Prophet;i ~5 say, "Let not a man be alone with a woman unless there is
a mahram with her,and
let not a woman travel kavel unless there is a mahram
with her"
"
A man stood slood up and said, "0 "O Messenger of Allah, my wife wite has set out for
Hajj Haij and I am enrolled for lor such and such battle"
" He >ft. ;s told him, "Go
forth and perform Hajj with your wife" "
(AI·Bukhari (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
And lbn Ibn Umar reported reporled that Allah's Messenger.s ;os said,
"A woman should not travel three days except with a mahram."
(Al-Bukhari
(AI-Bukhari and Muslim)
Abrlity Ability (both physrcal physical
and linancral) finanCial)
There are many hadiths forbidding a woman to journey to Hajj or
otherwrse otherwise wrthout without a mahram. mahram, because she is the weaker sex and may
be exposed to problems and difficulties durrng dunng travel thal that can only a man
can handle
She may also be targeted by wicked persons, persons. and a
mahram orovides provides Drotectron protecliOn for her