What is the ruling on dissecting a corpse to transport it by plane from one country to another?

The questioner : Dissection after death... they remove some of the parts.

The Shaykh : Why?

The questioner : To transport it by plane, for example, from one place to another.

The Shaykh : This is a calamity upon a calamity; because in reality, transporting a corpse from one place to another is contrary to the Shari'ah. If Muslims today were to follow this practice of transport without a valid reason, that is one aspect. And from another aspect, I do not see a necessity if the transport of the corpse is expedited, for the necessity of dissecting it by cutting open its belly and removing its intestines and the like. I learned this while I was in Switzerland, and Allah decreed for me to pray the funeral prayer for some doctors in the scientific sense, meaning he was a specialist in hadith. He died there from a procedure they performed; I do not know what they call it, it is related to the bladder, not the bladder.
The student : The prostate.

The Shaykh : Yes, he underwent this procedure and did not live more than a few days after it, then he died. And I was at that time in... so I was informed of the case, and we hastened by plane to a town in Switzerland. The doctor who recommended it was good; he was one of our Muslim brothers and a relative of mine. So the doctors recommended, and here is the point, they are of course Swiss doctors, disbelievers. They recommended that they not touch his belly with any cutting whatsoever, and that they use all means possible to preserve his body so that decay does not spread to it, until they search for an Islamic cemetery as close as possible to the place where that brother mentioned passed away. Then that nearby cemetery did not become available in any way, so the deceased's family decided to transport him and bury him in Makkah al-Mukarramah. So he remained for days in the large cooling device, and when the time came, he was transported as he was and buried in Makkah. So there was no urgent necessity to dissect this corpse by cutting open his belly, and then to increase the dissection by removing his intestines. So here there are two issues: the issue of transporting the corpse from one country to another, and this is not permissible in Islam; rather, he should be buried in the place where he died, if possible. And there is no doubt that if a Muslim dies in the lands of disbelief, and those disbelievers have made the cemeteries exclusive to the Christians, and it is not permissible for a Muslim to be buried in the Christians' cemeteries, then if there is found there—and it has actually been found in some European countries—cemeteries specifically for Muslims, like in London, for example, and Germany, and Belgium, and the like, then at that time this Muslim who died in a European town should be buried in the nearest Islamic cemetery available to him. If that does not become available, then at that time it is necessary to transport him, but there is nothing that justifies dissecting him by cutting open his belly.
Yes.