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Woman Traveling Alone
Assalaam alaikum
Is.it allowed for a woman to travel alone?
There is a hadith in bukhari that clearly states that a believing woman should not travel alone.
Yet there is another hadith in which the prophet said in something along the lines of that there will come a time when woman will travel from hira to [ a place I forgot] and she will fear no one except Allah. This second hadith some say it is by this hadith that the context is clear. Women were forbidden to travel alone because there was no safety and danger. But in modern times there is safety on airports and planes so she can travel alone to other countries. But some others say that today fahashi is common and fitna is even greater. So I’m confused.
I’m asking this for to allow my mother to go alone from Europe to pakistan. I don’t want to be sinful in the sight of Allah if it’s not allowed. I can’t go with her and no other mahram can for the moment. And she needs to join marriage of a relative.
My q is what’s the ruling on this?
An additional q along the same lines is it then also permissable to let ones wife travel alone from her country to the country where the man resides due to some hardship and there is no mahram availble for her?
JazakAllah khair ahsanal jaza
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Woman Traveling Alone
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That was no religious injunction, but a circumstantial one. The holy prophet has indicated that there would come a time when a woman from Hera to Makka would come alone, and she wouldn’t be afraid of anyone except God.
Narrated
Adi bin Hatim:While I was in the city of the Prophet, a man came and complained to him (the Prophet) of destitution and poverty. Then another man came and complained of robbery (by highwaymen). The Prophet said, "Adi! Have you been to Al-Hira?" I said, "I haven't been to it, but I was informed about it." He said, "If you should live for a long time, you will certainly see that a lady in a Howdah traveling from Al-Hira will (safely reach Mecca and) perform the Tawaf of the Kaba, fearing none but Allah.” (Bukhari 3595)
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