If a person dies as a Jew, do we assert that he is among the people of the Fire, or do we refrain from making a judgment about his case?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A Jewish man died as a Jew, and we are certain of that. Do we assert that he is among the people of the Fire, as stated in the hadith, or do we refrain from making a judgment about his case?

Answer:
How do you know that he died as a Jew? Perhaps he repented at the last moment and you do not know? You are not tasked with this, my brother; you are not tasked with it. But we say: we treat him as a Jew, because what appears to us is that he died as a Jew; it appears to us thus. So we treat him as a Jew; we hand him over to the Jews; we do not lead his funeral prayer. As for the fact that he died as a Jew with absolute certainty, that is for Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes.