HAJJ AND UMRAH
GUIDE Trials and Tribulations Expose People’s Realities
Compiled and
Prepared by Talal bin Ahmad al-Aqeel
Introduction by
Minister of Islamic Affairs, Waqf, Da’wah and Irshad
Salih bin
Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Aal ash-Shaikh
REFERENCES
At-Tahqeeq
wal-Eedhah by Shaykh Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz
Sifatul Hajj
wal-Umrah by Shaykh Muhammad bin Salih bin Uthaymeen
Ahkam Takhtass bil
Muaminat by Dr.Salih bin Fawzan al-Fawzan
Hisnul-Muslim by
Shaykh Sa’eed bin Wahf al-Qahtani
Fatawa al-Lijnah
ad-Da'imah from the Permanent Committee for Religious Research, Riyadh, S.A
RULINGS (FATAWA)
By Shaykh Abdul-Aziz
bin Baz, Shaykh Muhammad bin Uthaymeen and the Permanent Committe for Research
and Ifta
Question: What is the ruling
about someone who goes to Makkah without intending Hajj or Umrah?
Answer: Anyone going to Makkah
without that intent, such as a salesman, office worker,postal worker, driver or
others who have business there - such people are not required to assume ihram
unless they wish to. This is understood from the Prophet's statement about the
meeqats: "They are for those who come from them and those who come from
beyond them who intend Hajj or Umrah. "So one who crosses a Meeqat not
intending Hajj or Umrah does not need ihram, and that is mercy and facilitation
from Allah to His servants.
Question: What should the
pilgrim of tamattu’ and qiran do when he is unable to offer a sacrifice (hadi)?
Answer: When he is not able to
offer the hadi he must fast three days during Hajj and seven days when he
returns to his family. He has a choice concerning the three days - if he wishes
he can fast them before Eed Day or if he wishes he can fast them on the three
days of tashreeq. Allah has said:
وَأَتِمُّوا الْحَجَّ وَالْعُمْرَةَ لِلَّهِ ۚ فَإِنْ أُحْصِرْتُمْ
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَ مِنَ الْهَدْيِ ۖ وَلَا تَحْلِقُوا (١٩٦)
رُءُوسَكُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَبْلُغَ الْهَدْيُ
مَحِلَّهُ ۚ فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضًا أَوْ بِهِ أَذًى مِّن رَّأْسِهِ فَفِدْيَةٌ
مِّن صِيَامٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ
نُسُكٍ ۚ فَإِذَا أَمِنتُمْ فَمَن تَمَتَّعَ بِالْعُمْرَةِ إِلَى الْحَجِّ فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَ
مِنَ الْهَدْيِ ۚ
فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَاثَةِ
أَيَّامٍ فِي الْحَجِّ وَسَبْعَةٍ إِذَا رَجَعْتُمْ ۗ تِلْكَ عَشَرَةٌ كَامِلَةٌ ۗ
ذَٰلِكَ
لِمَن لَّمْ يَكُنْ أَهْلُهُ حَاضِرِي
الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ
"And
complete the Hajj and Umrah for Allah. But if you are prevented, then [offer]
what can be obtained with ease of sacrificial animals. And do not shave your
heads until the sacrificial animal has reached its place of slaughter. And
whoever among you is ill or has an ailment of the head [making shaving
necessary, must offer] a ransom of fasting or charity or sacrifice. And when
you are secure, then whoever performs Umrah followed by Hajj [offers] what can
be obtained with ease of sacrificial animals. And whoever cannot find [or
afford one] - then a fast of three days during Hajj and seven when you have
returned [home]. Those are ten complete [days]. This is for those whose family
is not in the area of al-Masjid al-Haram. And fear Allah, and know that Allah
is severe in penalty." (2:196)
And in Saheeh al-Bukhari,both Aisha and Ibn Umar
related:
"Fasting the days of tashreeq was not
allowed except to those who could not obtain a sacrificial (hadi)."
It is preferable if one can fast the three days
before the Day of Arafah, and he should not be fasting on the Day of Arafah
because the Prophet ﷺ stayed
in Arafah without fasting and he forbade fasting on the Day of Arafah for those
who are in Arafah. The three days can be fasted either consecutively or
seperately and that is true of the seven at home as well. Allah did not
stipulate they be fasted consecutively but only said:
وَسَبْعَةٍ إِذَا رَجَعْتُمْ ۗ
"And seven when you have returned."
For one unable to obtain a hadi, fasting is
preferable to asking people to provide one for him to slaughter.
Question: Is it allowable for a
woman to use pills to prevent her monthly period or delay it at the time of
Hajj?
Answer: It is allowable for a
woman to use pills to prevent menstruation when she fears it at that time. But
it should be after the consultation of a medical specialist for the protection
of her health. She may also use them in Ramadhan if she prefers to fast along
with the other people.
Question: What is the ruling
about someone who comes to a meeqat [for ihram] at a time other than the months
of Hajj?
One who approaches a meeqat does so in one of two
conditions:
1. He arrives there outside of the months of Hajj,
such as in Ramadhan or Shaban. The sunnah for him is to assume ihram for Umrah,
intending it in his heart and saying, "Labbayk for Umrah", and
continuing to recite the talbiyah often until he reaches the Kabah. There, he
ceases the talbiyah, makes a tawaf of seven circuits, prays two rakahs behind
Maqam Ibrahim, performs seven trips of sai between as-safa and al-Marwah and
then shaves the hair of his head or shortens it. By that he has completed his
Umrah and is freed from all the restrictions of ihram.
2. He arrives at the meeqat during the months of
Hajj, which are Shawwal, Dhul-Qadah and the first ten of Dhul-Hijjah. He can
choose between three things: Hajj alone, Umrah alone or joining them together. When
the Prophet ﷺ reached
the meeqat in Dhul-Qadah for the Farewell Hajj, he gave his companions a choice
between these three. The sunnah for one who is not bringing with him a
sacrificial animal is to enter ihram for Umrah, and do as mentioned previously
for the person crossing a meeqat outside the months of Hajj, because the
Prophet ﷺ ordered
his companions as they approached Makkah to make their ihram for Umrah, and
stressed that.
Question: My mother is advanced
in age and wants to perform Hajj, but there is no mahram for her in her
country. To bring a mahram would cost a large sum of money, so what is the
ruling in such a case?
Answer: Hajj is not an
obligation for her because it is not permissible for her to travel to Hajj
without a mahram whether she is young or old. If a mahram is available she
should perform Hajj, but if she dies without doing so someone should make Hajj
on her behalf using wealth from her estate. Otherwise, if someone volunteers to
use his own wealth to perform Hajj for her it is good and righteous.
Question: When it is permissible
to appoint a substitute to stone the pillars? Are there days when it is not
allowed to appoint a substitute?
Answer: It is permissible to appoint
a substitute for rami (stoning) of all the pillars for one who is ill or weak, for
the pregnant woman who fears harm, for the nursing woman or who has no one to
stay with her children, for the elderly man or woman and any others who cannot
for some reason perform rami. Also, the guardian of a young child stones for
him/her. The substitute stones first for himself and then for the other person
at each pillar unless he has already stoned for himself that day, in which case
he does not begin with himself. However, it is only permissible to appoint
someone who is performing Hajj. Anyone not performing Hajj may not act as a
substitute for the stoning, and if he does, it will not fulfill the duty of the
person who appointed him.
Question: I sometimes read
tafseers of the Qur'an while not in a pure state, as during the monthly period,
for example. Am I to be blamed for that and have I earned any sin by it?
Answer: There is no problem in
the menstruating or postpartum woman reading books of tafseer, or in reciting
the Qur'an aloud without touching the mashaf (which contains only the words of
Allah) according to the most correct view of the scholars. However, a person
whose impurity is due to marital intercourse or ejaculation should not recite
the Qur'an at all, excepting seperate verses, until he takes a bath (ghusl). It
was confirmed about the Prophet (that he was not kept from reciting the Qur'an
by anything except janabah (sexual impurity).
Question: I wore a face mask
during Umrah without knowing that it is not permitted. What is the expiation
for that?
Answer: Since the face mask, which
is the niqab, is among the things prohibited during ihram, the woman who wears
it must offer a ransom (fidyah).That means either to a slaughter a sheep or
goat, feed six poor people or fast three days. But that is on the condition
that she had knowledge of it and remembered, so if she wore it out of ignorance
of the ruling or while having forgotten its prohibition or that she was in the
state of ihram, there is no ransom. It is only for someone who does it
deliberately.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Many typos corrected, updated on 6/16/2019 @ 10:20 PM
