Is it permissible to move a deceased person to be buried in his home country?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
The questioner says: A man died in a foreign country. Is it permissible to move him to his family’s country to be buried there?
Answer:
If there are Muslim graveyards in the country where he died, he is buried with the Muslims in the Muslim graveyards and is not moved. However, if there are only graveyards of disbelievers in the country where he died, he is moved to the lands of the Muslims. Yes.
The questioner says: A man died in a foreign country. Is it permissible to move him to his family’s country to be buried there?
Answer:
If there are Muslim graveyards in the country where he died, he is buried with the Muslims in the Muslim graveyards and is not moved. However, if there are only graveyards of disbelievers in the country where he died, he is moved to the lands of the Muslims. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز نقل الميت ليدفن في بلده؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.