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Can You Do Business during Hajj?

08-01-2003

Question 32629

Is it permissible to travel for Hajj and to buy some goods from Makkah and sell them in my country to make a profit from them?

Summary of answer:

It is permissible to engage in business during the Hajj season and there is no sin on you if you buy and sell before and after Ihram.

Answer

Praise be to Allah.

It is permissible to engage in trade during the Hajj season. At-Tabari (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated in his Tafsir with his chain on narration that Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said concerning the verse (interpretation of the meaning), “There is no sin on you if you seek the Bounty of your Lord (during pilgrimage by trading)” [Al-Baqarah 2:198]:

There is no sin on you if you buy and sell before and after Ihram.

For a deeper understanding, please review these answers: (48027, 82293, 11771, 11534)

And Allah is the Source of strength.

Hukm al-Hajj wa’l-‘Umrah (rulings on Hajj and ‘Umrah)
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