The Criterion of Ability in Hajj

Question:
This questioner, may Allah preserve you, asks: What is the legal criterion for the ability to perform Hajj?

Answer:
They said: provisions and a mount. That is, one must be able to afford what he needs for provisions, which suffices him and makes him independent of people for the journey there and back, and it must also suffice for his family left behind until he returns to them. The mount is the means of transport available at any given time according to his circumstances. If he has the ability to hire a car, an airplane, or a ship, and has what he can pay for riding in these means of transport at any given time according to his circumstances, then he has the ability. Yes. Yes.