He was also asked:

“May a woman perform Hajj without a mahram (a male relative whom she is permanently forbidden to marry)?”

He replied:

“If she is an elderly woman who does not menstruate, no longer expects to marry, and has no mahram, then, according to one of the two scholarly views, she may perform Hajj with someone she trusts. This is one of the two positions reported from Ahmad and is the position of Mālik and al-Shāfiʿī.”

He, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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The scholars agree that a woman may perform Hajj on behalf of another woman, whether or not she is the other woman’s daughter. Likewise, according to the four imams and the majority of scholars, a woman may perform Hajj on behalf of a man, as the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, instructed the woman from Khathʿam to perform Hajj on behalf of her father when she said:

“O Messenger of Allah, the obligation of