Title: I would need to know if I can send a poor man/woman on Alms (Zakat money) to hajj. for example if my teacher or friend is a poor person and he loves to go to Hajj but he does not have any money to go there, can I submit Alms (Zakat money) to send him/or her to Hajj?

Question: Asalamulikum Warahmatullah. Dear Mufti Sahib, I would need to know if I can send a poor man/woman on Alms (Zakat money) to hajj. for example if my teacher or friend is a poor person and he loves to go to Hajj but he does not have any money to go there, can I submit Alms (Zakat money) to send him/or her to Hajj? Wasalam Ahmadullah Ahmadi from kandahar Afghanistan

Answer ID: 27852Posted on: Aug 29, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 2116/B=1715/tb=1431)

They can go to perform hajj with the zakah money if you give it in their possession and make them its owner.