Permissibility of travel for women after childbirth

20-4-2005 | IslamWeb

Question:

After deliveries of baby if a woman clean within 30 or 35 days she can travel any where or she should wait 40 days completion then she can travel will you explain that is it necessary to finish 40 days for traveling?
Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.

 

It is permissible for women after giving birth to a child to travel before she becomes pure as there is no relation between her becoming pure and travelling. There is no text from the Book of Allaah or the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) that prohibits women from travelling after childbirth [before becoming pure]. It is reported in the Sunnah that women can travel after giving birth to the baby. Asmaa' Bint 'Umays, the wife of Abu Bakr may Allaah be pleased with them gave birth to Mohammad at Thul-Hulayfah, in her way to Hajj. 'Aa'ishah may Allaah be pleased with her was in menses as well while on her way to Hajj.

However, when a woman travels, she must be accompanied by her husband or a Mahram (a non-marriageable relative). The Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said: "A woman should not travel except with a Mahram, and a man should not enter onto her except in the presence of one of her Mahaarim (plural of Mahram)." A man asked the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) I want to go out in a battle with such and such army, and my wife wants to go for Hajj, what shall I do? The Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) replied: "Accompany her." [Al-Bukhari] Besides, it is a condition that her travel not be to perform an act of disobedience.

Allaah knows best.

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