Is it permissible to delay shaving or shortening the hair after traveling from Makkah?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A group went to perform 'Umrah, and upon finishing the sa'y (walking) between al-Safa and al-Marwah, instead of shaving or shortening their hair in Makkah, they went to Jeddah. Some of them went to al-Madinah while still wearing their ihram clothes, and there they shortened their hair and changed their clothes. What is required of them, Honorable Shaykh?

Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that. Shaving and shortening the hair are permissible in any place, whether inside the Haram or outside the Haram, as long as they remained in their state of ihram and did not remove their ihram clothes until they shaved. There is no harm in doing it in any place, whether in al-Madinah, in Riyadh, or on the road. This suffices; shaving is valid in any place. It is not like the other rites of Hajj, which must be performed in the Haram. Shaving is valid in any place.