“Go and perform Hajj with your wife.” (1) Thus, he instructed him to go and perform Hajj with his wife, and the basic rule regarding a command is that it denotes obligation.

Second: because if the woman is to bear all the expenses, then ordinarily there is no hardship upon him—especially if he has not yet fulfilled the obligatory Hajj. In that case, we may say that it is obligatory upon him for two reasons: to fulfil his own obligation and to meet this woman’s need.

The view I hold is that he is not required to agree, nor is he obligated to travel with her. As for the hadith, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, instructed him to perform Hajj with his wife because the woman had already set out on her journey, and there was no way to remedy the matter except by his travelling with her.

Issue: A woman is financially able, and she has a mahram who can perform Hajj with her, such as her brother, but her husband has not given permission?

Answer: If Hajj has become obligatory upon the woman, her husband’s permission is not a condition. Rather, even if he prevents her, she may perform Hajj, because there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator.

His statement: “If one upon whom they are obligatory dies, they are to be paid from his estate,” meaning: whoever fulfils the relevant conditions and then dies, Hajj and Umrah are to be paid from his estate before inheritance and bequests, because they constitute a debt, in light of the Prophet’s statement: “Allah’s debt has more right