What is required of one who performs Hajj and leaves without performing the farewell tawaf?
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Question:
First, we begin, Shaykh Abdulaziz, with a message from the listener (A. M.) Al-Asiri. He says in his message: I am a young man, approximately twenty-eight years old, and I performed Hajj in the year 1399 AH and 1400 AH. He says: When I wanted to leave the Noble Makkah, I did not perform the farewell tawaf. In truth, I do not know what is required of me in this situation?
Please advise me. May Allah reward you with a thousand good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the blessings and peace be upon His servant and Messenger, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows:
There is no doubt that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) prescribed for the pilgrim to bid farewell to the House before he leaves for his homeland. It is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: Muslim narrated it in his Sahih. And Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "The people were commanded that their last visit should be to the House, except that it was made easier for the menstruating woman." It is agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
The correct view is that it is obligatory; because the original ruling of a command is obligation, and the original ruling of a prohibition is forbiddance. So it is obligatory for every pilgrim, male or female, to bid farewell to the House before he leaves Makkah for his homeland after he has finished the rituals of Hajj, after he has stoned the pillars on the twelfth day if he hastens, or on the thirteenth day if he does not hasten. After that, he performs the farewell tawaf, seven circuits around the House, and there is no sa'y in it.
So if he leaves for his country and does not perform this tawaf, then a sacrificial animal is required of him, meaning: a slaughter that he slaughters in Makkah and distributes among the poor, whether he slaughters it himself or appoints someone to slaughter it in Makkah. If he returns and performs the farewell tawaf, it suffices for him according to a group of scholars, but slaughtering the hady and distributing it among the poor is more preferable and safer; to avoid the disagreement of those who said that returning does not suffice for him, along with repentance and seeking forgiveness. For the one who leaves the farewell tawaf has left an obligatory act, and leaving an obligatory act is a sin. So the obligatory thing is repentance and seeking forgiveness, regret, and not returning to such a thing, along with the mentioned expiation, which is a sacrificial animal of the type of sacrifices and gifts, meaning: a one-year-old sheep or a two-year-old goat, free from defects, slaughtered in Makkah, and divided among the poor. Yes.
First, we begin, Shaykh Abdulaziz, with a message from the listener (A. M.) Al-Asiri. He says in his message: I am a young man, approximately twenty-eight years old, and I performed Hajj in the year 1399 AH and 1400 AH. He says: When I wanted to leave the Noble Makkah, I did not perform the farewell tawaf. In truth, I do not know what is required of me in this situation?
Please advise me. May Allah reward you with a thousand good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may the blessings and peace be upon His servant and Messenger, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows:
There is no doubt that Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) prescribed for the pilgrim to bid farewell to the House before he leaves for his homeland. It is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said:
None of you should depart until his last visit is to the House
لا ينفرن أحد منكم حتى يكون آخر عهده بالبيتThe correct view is that it is obligatory; because the original ruling of a command is obligation, and the original ruling of a prohibition is forbiddance. So it is obligatory for every pilgrim, male or female, to bid farewell to the House before he leaves Makkah for his homeland after he has finished the rituals of Hajj, after he has stoned the pillars on the twelfth day if he hastens, or on the thirteenth day if he does not hasten. After that, he performs the farewell tawaf, seven circuits around the House, and there is no sa'y in it.
So if he leaves for his country and does not perform this tawaf, then a sacrificial animal is required of him, meaning: a slaughter that he slaughters in Makkah and distributes among the poor, whether he slaughters it himself or appoints someone to slaughter it in Makkah. If he returns and performs the farewell tawaf, it suffices for him according to a group of scholars, but slaughtering the hady and distributing it among the poor is more preferable and safer; to avoid the disagreement of those who said that returning does not suffice for him, along with repentance and seeking forgiveness. For the one who leaves the farewell tawaf has left an obligatory act, and leaving an obligatory act is a sin. So the obligatory thing is repentance and seeking forgiveness, regret, and not returning to such a thing, along with the mentioned expiation, which is a sacrificial animal of the type of sacrifices and gifts, meaning: a one-year-old sheep or a two-year-old goat, free from defects, slaughtered in Makkah, and divided among the poor. Yes.
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