She did Hajj and she did not cut her hair, stone Jamrat al-‘Aqabah or offer a sacrifice; what must she do now?

Question A woman from Morocco did the obligatory Hajj in 1988. On the tenth of Dhu’l-Hijjah she did not do these rituals: stoning the Jamrah, cutting her hair and offering the sacrifice. What must she do? What if she was unaware of the rulings? Praise be to Allah. Cutting the hair for women is one…

Question

A woman from Morocco did the obligatory Hajj in 1988. On the tenth of Dhu’l-Hijjah she did not do these rituals: stoning the Jamrah, cutting her hair and offering the sacrifice. What must she do? What if she was unaware of the rulings?

Praise be to Allah.

Cutting the hair for women is one of the obligatory acts
of Hajj. The same applies to stoning the Jamrah on the Day of Sacrifice
(the tenth day of Dhu’l-Hijjah). Whoever omits an obligatory act has to
offer a compensatory sacrifice, by slaughtering a sheep and distributing
the meat to the poor of Makkah. If he is not able to do that, then he
must fast ten days. This is the well-known view of the fuqaha’.

With regard to the hadiy (sacrifice), it is only required of
those who are doing tamattu‘ (‘umrah followed by Hajj, exiting ihram in
between) or qiraan (‘umrah and Hajj together, without exiting ihram in
between)].

If this woman did tamattu‘ or qiraan, then she has to offer a
sacrifice, so she must appoint someone to slaughter her hadiy in Makkah; if
she cannot do that, then she must fast for ten days.

What appears to us to be the case is that if she is poor, and
she could not afford the price of the sacrifice to compensate for not
cutting her hair and not stoning the Jamrah, then she does not have to fast
in compensation for that, because there is no evidence to indicate that she
should be obliged to fast. A fatwa to this effect was issued by Shaykh Ibn
‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him). With regard to the hadiy for
tamattu‘ or qiraan, if she is not able to offer it, then she must fast,
because Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):

“whosoever
performs the Umrah in the months of Hajj, before (performing) the Hajj,
(i.e. Hajj-at-Tamatt ‘ and Al-Qiran), he must slaughter a Hady such as he
can afford, but if he cannot afford it, he should observe Saum (fasts) three
days during the Hajj and seven days after his return (to his home), making
ten days in all”

[al-Baqarah 2:196].

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was
asked:

This questioner is saying: I did Hajj tamattu‘ but I did not
offer a sacrifice and I did not cut my hair. What is the ruling? Please
answer me, may Allah reward you with good.

He (may Allah have mercy on him) replied:

Sacrifice is only obligatory for the one who is doing tamattu‘
or qiraan. As for the one who is doing ifraad (Hajj on its own), he does not
have to offer a sacrifice. As for cutting the hair, you have to offer a
compensatory sacrifice for not doing it, to be slaughtered in Makkah and the
meat distributed to the poor, because the scholars say that whoever omits
one of the obligatory acts of Hajj must offer a compensatory sacrifice to be
slaughtered in Makkah and the meat distributed to the poor.

I would like to take this opportunity to advise my Muslim
brothers, if they want to do Hajj, to learn the rulings on Hajj before they
undertake the pilgrimage, because if they do Hajj without knowledge, they
may do things that will spoil their pilgrimage without realising, and they
may not realise that until a long time afterwards. So if a person wants to
do Hajj, he must learn the rulings on Hajj, either from the scholars
face-to-face, or by reading books about the rituals, of which there are
many, praise be to Allah.

End quote from Fataawa Noor ‘ala
ad-Darb

And he (may Allah have mercy on him) said, concerning someone
who failed to cut his hair: He must offer a compensatory sacrifice, to be
slaughtered in Makkah and the meat distributed to the poor. This applies if
he is well off. But if he is poor, then he does not have to do anything.

End quote from Majmoo‘ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen
(22/470)

Conclusion:

if she failed to cut her hair, stone the Jamrah and offer the
sacrifice required of one who is doing qiraan or tamattu‘, then she has to
offer three compensatory sacrifices. If she is not able to do that, then she
must fast ten days to compensate for the sacrifice of tamattu‘ or qiraan.
And you should make sure whether she did not stone the Jamaraat after she
left Muzdalifah at night, and whether her Hajj was tamattu‘ or qiraan.

And Allah knows best.

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