What is the ruling on placing a deceased person in a coffin if it is for the purpose of transporting the deceased from one country to another?

The questioner : The questioner says: What is the ruling on burial in coffins, especially if the deceased was brought from a distant country and it is feared that he may have decomposed?

The Shaykh : It is feared that what?

The questioner : He may have decomposed; meaning, he has spoiled.

The Shaykh : First: It should be noted to Muslims that transporting a deceased person from one country to another is contrary to the Sunnah. The Sunnah is that a Muslim should be buried in the place, in the town, in the cemetery of the town where he died. This is because transportation necessitates delaying the burial of the deceased, and there are hadiths that command hastening the burial of the deceased and command hastening the procession of the funeral, of course, with a gentle speed, as explained by the Messenger (peace be upon him): . So, if a person dies in a country other than his own, he should be buried in the cemetery of that town if there is one there. The problem mentioned in the question seems clear: the man died in the lands of disbelief. In that case, one should look for a cemetery as close as possible to the town where he died... and so on. Necessities have their own rulings. However, if a person dies—for example, and this happens often—a man dies in Egypt and he is a Kuwaiti, and he is brought here; this is not permissible. A man dies in Syria and is Egyptian, and he is brought back to Egypt, and vice versa; all of this is contrary to what came from the Messenger (peace be upon him) regarding hastening... the burial of the dead. As for what came in the question about there being a coffin, and it is feared that this man has decomposed and disintegrated such that he cannot be taken out of this coffin, which is the bier; in that case, we say: Necessities are estimated according to their degree.
But it is known to doctors that a man like this, who was placed in this coffin and transported, the date of his placement in the coffin is known, and doctors know precisely how long this body can last before it decomposes. If it is more likely than not that he has decomposed, let his guardian be brought and he should be buried as he is, from the perspective of repelling the greater harm by the lesser harm. However, if it is more likely than not that the man is still as he was, because he was transported—for example—from the medical refrigerator and placed in the bier, and transported by plane for an hour or two or close to that to the country; in that case, he is taken out of the bier and it is not permissible to bury him in it; because that is from the traditions of the Christians, and it is not permissible to imitate them in everything, and that includes burial. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
; that we dig in the qibla wall to the size of the deceased's body and place him in this trench, then we pile the earth behind him; such that there is no earth on him, but only behind him. As for the shiqq, it is this trench in which such a coffin is placed. This is from the custom of the Christians, and we, the Muslims, have been commanded to differ from the polytheists in their way.
Other than that?