Sending for Hajj Badal Someone Who Has Not Performed His Own Obligatory Hajj

Question

(1) Can a well-to-do pilgrim who has not yet discharged his own obligatory Hajj go on Hajj badal (proxy Hajj) on someone’s behalf in the following manner: from home he intends to go only to perform his own ‘Umra, and having reached Makka the Exalted and performed his ‘Umra there, in the days of Hajj he enters the ihram of the Hajj badal in the hill — at the place Tan‘im (the Mosque of ‘A’isha ﵂) or at the place Ji‘rana? Is there any scope for its permissibility according to the Shari‘a?

Answer

(1) The best course, of course, is to send for Hajj badal a person who has already performed his own obligatory Hajj; but if someone who has not performed the obligatory Hajj is sent and he performs the Hajj badal on behalf of the one who commissioned him, the Hajj badal will still be valid. So it is in al-Durr al-Mukhtar. (2) If this Hajj badal is voluntary (nafl)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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