He came to Jeddah with the intention of going to Madinah and entering ihram from there, but then he was prevented from going to Madinah and he entered ihram from Jeddah
Question My wife and I went for Hajj last year, but we did not put on the ihram garments until we reached Jeddah, because we assumed that we would go to Madinah first, but the authorities in Jeddah did not allow us to go to Madinah because of the timing of Hajj, because that was…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
If the matter is
as you describe, that you reached Jeddah without ihram because you intended
to go to Madinah first, then enter ihram from there, but the authorities
prevented you from going to Madinah, so you entered ihram from Jeddah, then
there is no blame on you, because when you first went to Jeddah, you were
not intending to do Hajj, so you were not required to enter ihram from the
miqaat when you passed by it; rather you intended to do Hajj when you
travelled from Madinah, in which case you would have had to enter ihram from
its miqaat (Dhu’l-Hulayfah).
Shaykh Ibn
‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: A man came from Jeddah
and did not enter ihram; first he went to al-Madinah al-Munawwarah to visit
the Prophet’s Mosque, then he entered ihram from the miqaat of the people of
Madinah; is this valid?
He replied:
There is nothing wrong with that. That is, if a person comes from his
country, intending to go to Madinah first, and he halts in Jeddah, then he
travels from Jeddah to Madinah, then he comes back from Madinah having
entered ihram from the miqaat of the people of Madinah, there is nothing
wrong with that. End quote from Liqa’ al-Baab al-Maftooh (121/29)
As it was not
possible to travel to Madinah, and then you decided to do Hajj, then you
could enter ihram from where you were, i.e., in Jeddah, and this is what you
did, praise be to Allah, so you do not have to do anything further.
We ask Allah to
accept acts of worship from us and from you.
And Allah knows
best.
