The One Who Is Preferred to Wash the Deceased and the Washing of Spouses

Question:
He has a point related to this question. He asks: Who is the one preferred to wash the deceased? May Allah reward you. And is it permissible for a woman to wash her husband, and vice versa?

Answer:
The one preferred to wash him is the person he willed should wash him. So if he willed that a specific person wash him, that person is the preferred one. After the one designated by the will, it is his relatives, the closest then the next closest. The closest of his relatives is the preferred one. Now, since these large washing facilities have been established in some mosques, people have become lazy about washing their dead and hand them over to these facilities. If these facilities are trustworthy and wash them in the required manner and shroud them in the prescribed manner, there is no harm in that. As for a man washing his wife and a wife washing her husband, there is no prohibition. Beyond that, it is not permissible. Women are washed by women and men are washed by men, except for spouses, where one of them washes the other. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.