After washing her deceased husband, she admitted that he had divorced her while he was ill

Question:
The brother al-Rashid Nuwayr says in his second question: What is the ruling on a woman who washed her husband’s funeral body, and after covering the body, she admitted to everyone and said, “This man divorced me”? Is it permissible for her to wash him, and does the divorce of the sick person take effect?

Answer:
The issue of divorce in the state of illness requires a distinction. If it was a dangerous illness, or he was in the process of dying, then the divorce does not take effect with regard to inheritance or the waiting period, because he is suspected of intending to deprive her. However, if he divorced her in a non-dangerous illness, or divorced her while in good health, or divorced her in a dangerous illness but at her own request, then the divorce takes effect in all these cases, because he is not suspected of intending to deprive her. And if she has been divorced by him, it is not permissible for her to wash him. It is only permissible for a wife to wash her husband. A woman who has been divorced with a final divorce, a woman divorced with a final divorce, it is not permissible for her to wash her ex-husband, because she is no longer his wife. Yes.