Safar

Q: Am I allowed to travel for the distance of safr (77 km) with my son who is almost 12 years old (exact age 11 years and 10 months)?

Q: I want to go on holiday abroad. I am a 48 year old female. After I asked, I cannot get a mahram to go on holiday with me. Can I go alone since I heard that after 50 years old then no mahram is required?

Q: From last four years, every week Monday I travel from my native town to 150 KM for work (working in IT company) and I stay there till Friday evening, I stay with my friends in a rental house, then I return to my native town by Friday night, and I stay in my native town till Monday morning. My question is that while I stay in my working area (i.e. Monday morning to Friday evening) whether I have to shorten my prayer or I have to pray regularly (i.e. four rakaats)?

Q: I would like to find out the Shar’ee ruling regarding a woman who travels the safar distance in the state of haidh, and only becomes clean upon reaching her destination. If she intends staying for less than fifteen days at her destination, will she perform full Salaah or will she make qasar? I am a student studying in a Madrasah and I always understood that a woman who travels in haidh will perform full Salaah at her destination if she becomes clean at her destination. However, another student who is in the final year recently mentioned to me that there are two opinions in this maslah and that the more correct opinion is that she will perform qasar Salaah at her destination. The student supported his claim by presenting four arguments.

The first argument is that when a woman in haidh travels during the month of Ramadhaan, her intention for travelling is considered and she receives the concession of not fasting.

The second argument is that when a woman in haidh enters into ihraam, her intention of entering into ihraam is considered. When the intention of a woman travelling in haidh is considered in these two masaail, why is her intention not considered for the concession of qasar Salaah when she becomes clean at her destination?

The third argument he presented is that when a kaafir travels the safar distance and accepts Islam upon reaching his destination, he will make qasar. When a kaafir will make qasar, why should a woman who travels in the state of haidh not make qasar?

The fourth argument he presented is that from the Hanafi jurists, this view (that the woman will perform qasar when she becomes clean at her destination) was held by Allaamah Abu Ja’far Hinduwaani (Rahimahullah), who is the most senior Faqih from all the Hanafi Fuqaha who have discussed this maslah in their kitaabs. Hence, his view is the strongest and it should be preferred over the view of the other Fuqaha.

Mufti Saheb, could you explain to me the reasoning of the student, as I do not understand it, and could you explain to me whether the reasoning is correct and conforms to the preferred view in the Hanafi Mazhab? If what the student said is incorrect, then could you provide me with the correct explanation of these masaail?

Q: The followers of Imam Shafiee are permitted to travel as a group of woman over the Sharee distance of 78km. What is their proof for this? What is the ruling of a woman from the Hanafi fiqh to travel with a mahram? Is it fardh, wajib or sunnah?

Q: If a woman undertakes a journey in the state of haidh and becomes pure after reaching her destination, must she perform full salaah or make qasr?

Q: Is it permissible for a woman to travel more than the safar distance without a mahram e.g. on a plane alone?

Q: If a person is on jamaat, and is a musafir technically but once reaches e.g. Cape Town just travelling from masjid to masjid not very lengthy distances, then will he be sinful for leaving out sunnah muakkadah salaah?

Q: I live in Johannesburg. I travel to Durban for one week every month. How do I perform my salaahs in Durban?

Q: Qasar is not allowed when we stay for job at destination. I have a my job at more than 1000 KM away from my home. So qasar prayer is allowed for me during travelling or not?