If two men are killed in a car accident, one Muslim and the other non-Muslim, how do we pray over the Muslim if we cannot distinguish between them?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Allah decreed that two men were in a car accident and the car burned with them inside, one of them being a Muslim and the other a non-Muslim. The question is: if the two men cannot be distinguished and there are no signs, should they be prayed over, buried in the Muslim cemeteries, and washed, or not?
Answer:
Pray over them with the intention of the Muslim. As for burial, they are not to be buried in the Muslim cemetery; they are to be buried in a separate place, in the desert, in a separate place.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Allah decreed that two men were in a car accident and the car burned with them inside, one of them being a Muslim and the other a non-Muslim. The question is: if the two men cannot be distinguished and there are no signs, should they be prayed over, buried in the Muslim cemeteries, and washed, or not?
Answer:
Pray over them with the intention of the Muslim. As for burial, they are not to be buried in the Muslim cemetery; they are to be buried in a separate place, in the desert, in a separate place.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [579 -2802]إذا احترق رجلان في حادث سير أحدهما مسلم والآخر غير مسلم كيف نصلي على المسلم إذا لم نميزه؟ — youtube.com
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