Praise Be to Allah. Allah\u2019s Peace and Blessings Be upon Prophet Mohammad. Hajj is a great religious duty (faridah) that must be performed once in a lifetime for those who are able to do so. The principle is that Muslims should perform it themselves; except if they are unable to perform it due to old age or a terminal illness. In that case, Muslims are permitted to appoint someone else to perform Hajj on their behalf, provided that the appointee has already performed Hajj for themselves, according to the stronger opinion of the scholars. In this regard Ibn ‘Abbas (May Allah Be Pleased with Him) narrated that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) heard a man saying, \u201cO Allah! Here I am in response to Your call (saying Labbayk on behalf Shubrumah.\u201d Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) asked him. \u201cHave you performed your own Hajj?\u201d He replied, \u2018No,\u2019 whereupon the Prophet told him, \u201cYou must perform Hajj on your own behalf first, and then perform it on behalf of Shubrumah.\u201d Related by Abu Dawud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For performing Hajj on behalf of a living person, it is required that this person grants permission. As for the deceased, it is permissible to perform Hajj on their behalf without their permission, whether it is an obligatory Hajj or a voluntary one. If someone dies while the obligatory Hajj was still due on them, it is recommended that the cost of Hajj be taken from their inheritance, and their family should appoint someone to perform Hajj on their behalf from their wealth, whether the deceased had instructed for this before their death or not. This is based on the narration of Ibn ‘Abbas (May Allah Be Pleased with Him) \u201cA woman from the tribe of Juhainah came to the Prophet (PBUH) and said, \u201cMy mother had vowed to perform Hajj, but she died before fulfilling her vow. Should I perform Hajj on her behalf?\u201d The Prophet (PBUH) said, \u201cYes perform Hajj on her behalf. Had there been a debt on your mother, would you have paid it or not? So, pay off her debt to Allah, for He is most deserving of settlement of His debt.\u201d Related by Al-Bukhari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Praise Be to Allah. Allah\u2019s Peace and Blessings Be upon Prophet Mohammad. Hajj is a great religious duty (faridah) that must be performed once in a lifetime for those who are able to do so. The principle is that Muslims should perform it themselves; except if they are unable to perform it due to old …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":24434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-azhar","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waag-azhar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}