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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on a maid traveling for Hajj without a mahram

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Question:
What is the ruling on a maid traveling to perform the obligatory Hajj with a group consisting of several women? And does a person sin if he prevents her from performing the obligatory Hajj?

Answer:
A woman must not travel without a mahram, neither for Hajj nor for anything else, whether she is a maid or anyone else. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
No woman should travel except with a mahramلا تسافر امرأة إلا مع ذي محرم
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 9:2565
, and a woman and a slave in a state of ihram are in danger. Therefore, no one may send a woman traveling without a mahram, whether she is his wife, his sister, his aunt, his maid, or anyone else, except with a mahram. The mahram is well known: her brother, or her husband, or her father, or her son, by blood or by breastfeeding. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 100 ما حكم سفر الخادمة لأداء فريضة الحج؟ وهل يأثم مانعها عن الحج؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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