A woman traveling for treatment with her young son
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner says: A woman needs to have a surgery performed in her country outside the Kingdom, and her husband cannot travel with her because he has money with people that he needs to collect. Is it permissible for this woman to travel with her son, who is eight years old, accompanied by a safe escort? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
A woman may not travel except with a mahram (a relative one may not marry), and the mahram is one who has reached puberty. She may not travel for treatment or for anything else except with a mahram, nor for Hajj or anything else except with a mahram, whether it is her husband, her brother, her son, or her father. The mahram must have reached puberty, whether he is a brother, a son, an uncle, a maternal uncle, or the like. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner says: A woman needs to have a surgery performed in her country outside the Kingdom, and her husband cannot travel with her because he has money with people that he needs to collect. Is it permissible for this woman to travel with her son, who is eight years old, accompanied by a safe escort? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
A woman may not travel except with a mahram (a relative one may not marry), and the mahram is one who has reached puberty. She may not travel for treatment or for anything else except with a mahram, nor for Hajj or anything else except with a mahram, whether it is her husband, her brother, her son, or her father. The mahram must have reached puberty, whether he is a brother, a son, an uncle, a maternal uncle, or the like. Yes.
Source
التوحيد فضله وأنواعه وحكمه — islamhouse.com (46:37)
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