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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on one who refuses to wash the body of the one who bequeathed it to him

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a man bequeaths that a specific person wash his body after his death, and this man to whom the bequest was made refuses to wash him, what is to be done in that case?

Answer:
If he refuses, someone else washes him.
Source شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، أول كتاب الجنائز — islamhouse.com (1:08:25)

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