A mother’s Hajj with a flight ticket gifted by a colleague

Question:
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I am a young man who has been working in the Kingdom for two years. My mother performed Hajj last year and returned to her country with a flight ticket gifted by a colleague at an airline company. Is her Hajj not permissible? And am I required to give charity equal to the value of the ticket so that Allah will accept her Hajj?

Answer:
Her Hajj is valid, if Allah wills, and regarding the value of the ticket: if the one who gave it to her gave it to her lawfully, there is no harm; he is a doer of good. But if he was committing a betrayal regarding the ticket, he must repent, and she must repent if she knew about it. However, if a person had a ticket and no longer needed it and gave it to her, or bought it for her from his own pocket as a form of assistance, there is no harm. But if it involved betrayal, it is not permissible. Both of them must repent. The correct criterion is what is valid, and it does not cause harm afterwards. Yes.

The presenter:
Good.