The ruling on a father or brother washing the body of a deceased woman
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a woman dies among men, and her husband is not with them, but her brother or her father is present with these men, and there are no women with them, is it permissible for the father or the brother to wash her body?
Answer:
No. It is not permissible for a man to wash her body, even if he is her father, her son, or her brother. This is not permissible. Rather, she is to be given tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth), as you have heard: tayammum with dust, by wiping her face and her hands with the dust. Yes, this is sufficient. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a woman dies among men, and her husband is not with them, but her brother or her father is present with these men, and there are no women with them, is it permissible for the father or the brother to wash her body?
Answer:
No. It is not permissible for a man to wash her body, even if he is her father, her son, or her brother. This is not permissible. Rather, she is to be given tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth), as you have heard: tayammum with dust, by wiping her face and her hands with the dust. Yes, this is sufficient. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/43 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:02:38)
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