::: Ruling for a woman traveling without a mahram/حكم الذهاب الى سفر بغير محرم :::

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الحمد لله


من صيانة الإسلام للمرأة أنّه أوجب المحرم لسفرها ليحفظها ويصونها من أصحاب الشهوات والأغراض الدنيئة وأن يُعينها لضعفها في السّفر الذي هو قطعة من العذاب ، فلا يجوز سفر المرأة بغير محرم لما روى ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال : ( لا تُسَافِرَنَّ امْرَأَةٌ إِلا وَمَعَهَا مَحْرَمٌ فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ اكْتُتِبْتُ فِي غَزْوَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَخَرَجَتِ امْرَأَتِي حَاجَّةً قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَحُجَّ مَعَ امْرَأَتِكَ ) البخاري فتح 3006


ومما يدلّ على وجوب المحرم أنّ النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أمر هذا الرّجل بترك الجهاد مع أنّه قد كُتب اسمه في إحدى الغزوات ، وأنّ سفر المرأة في طاعة وقُربة وهو الحجّ وليس في سياحة أو سفر مشبوه ، ومع ذلك أمره أن ينصرف ليحجّ مع امرأته .

وقد اشترط العلماء في المحرم خمسة شروط وهي : أن يكون ذكرا – مسلما – بالغا - عاقلا – وأن يحرم عليها تحريما مؤبدا كالأب والأخ والعم والخال وأبي الزوج وزوج الأم والأخ من الرضاع ونحوهم ( بخلاف المُحرَم المؤقت كزوج الأخت وزوج العمة وزوج الخالة ) .

وبناء على هذا فإن أخا زوجها وكذا ابن عمها أو ابن خالها ليسوا من المحارم فلا يجوز لها أن تُسافر معهم . والله تعالى أعلم .


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One of the ways in which Islam protects women is that it requires a woman to travel with a mahram, to protect her from those who have bad intentions and to help her, because of her weakness, in facing the arduous trials of travelling. A woman is not permitted to travel without a mahram because of the hadeeth narrated by Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), who reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “A woman should absolutely not travel unless she has a mahram with her.” A man stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allaah, I have enlisted in such-and-such a military campaign, and my wife has set out for Hajj.” He said, “Go and do Hajj with your wife.”
al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, 3006

What indicates that a mahram is obligatory is the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) commanded this man to give up the idea of jihaad (on this occasion), even though he had enlisted for a campaign and his wife was travelling for the purpose of worship, not for some frivolous or suspicious reason. In spite of all this, he told him to go and do Hajj with his wife.

The ulamaa’ have listed five conditions for a person to be considered a mahram. He should be male, Muslim, adult, and of sound mind, and he should be a relative to whom marriage is permanently forbidden, such as a father, brother, paternal uncle, maternal uncle, father in law, mother’s husband or brother through radaa’ah (breastfeeding), etc. (as opposed to relatives to whom marriage is temporarily forbidden, such as a sister’s husband, paternal aunt’s husband, maternal aunt’s husband )


On this basis, the husband’s brother and the son of a paternal or maternal uncle are not mahrams, so it is not permitted for her to travel with them. And Allaah knows best

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