Rules of Mahram in Hajj

 Islam is the belief of peace and knowledge. Allah knows better about human needs, good and bad features of selfdom and therefore presents a total guide for life throughout Prophet Muhammad and the Holy Quran. In Islam, women should be treated as the noblest facet of a society. Their respect and honor is a must, consequently, Allah has given them some guidelines as a avoidance of their regard just as “the Mahram”.

As take out from the Quran, the meaning of this term is; A Mahram is a male relation of the women who is either related through blood ties, marriage or breastfeeding. This includes relations like father, brother, son, grandfather, grandson, nephew, uncle, father-in-law, stepfather, stepson and alike associations. According to Shari’ah a woman can simply perform Hajj with any of these persons only.

Hajj is a compulsion to each competent Muslim in a lifetime. While it comes to Muslim women, I have searched for a pertinent Quranic Verse about travelling with Mahram, but couldn’t find any precise verse in the Quran which states that women couldn’t travel without her Mahram.  However, it is obviously reveal in Sahih Muslim that a woman is not allowable to travel a detachment more than 78 km without her Mahram.

In Sahih Muslim,

a.      Sayyiduna Abud Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “it is illegal for a woman who consider in Allah and the last day that she actions the reserve of one day and one night with no a Mahram accompanying her” (Sahi al-Bukhari, no 1038)

b.      Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) describe that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “A woman must not travel for three days but with a Mahram.” (Sahih al-Bukari, no. 1036 & Sahih Muslim)

c.       Sayyiduna Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) relate that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “Let no woman travel for extra than three days except her husband or a or a Mahram is with her.” (Sahih Muslim)