{"id":5370,"date":"2025-10-24T04:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:38:58","slug":"washing-dead-body-mother-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5370","title":{"rendered":"Washing the Dead Body of His Mother: Allowed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Washing the Dead Body of One&#8217;s Mother<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\">Question:<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is it permissible for a person to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/nafl-prayers\/funeral-prayer\/\">wash his mother\u2019s body<\/a> after she dies?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is prohibited to uncover the <em>`awrah<\/em> \u00a0(the parts of the body that should be kept covered) in front of children who have reached the age of discernment, because Allah has commanded the believers to tell household members who have not reached the age of puberty. This ruling is also applied after death, so a son is not allowed to wash his mother\u2019s dead body. If she has no husband and no women are available, then the jurists said that it is permissible for a male relative to wash her, like her son or her brother, for a dire necessity without taking off her clothes. Rather, he should wash her with her clothes on.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to this question, Dr. Muhammad Salah clarifies that a husband may wash his wife\u2019s dead body and vice versa. `A\u2019ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said to her, \u201cIf you die before me, I will wash you myself.\u201d (Ahmed and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-history\/ibn-majah-great-memorizer-hadith\/\">Ibn Majah<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"><br \/>\n<\/video><\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Iqra Youtube Channel. <\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/washing-dead-body-mother-allowed\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of washing the dead body of one\u2019s husband? Is the dead body of one\u2019s mother still `awrah?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1859,1920,9,4732,2247,4733,1568,1569,4734,374,1575,1863,1864,1576,1577,1830,4735,4736,4775,4776,4737,4777,4738],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-ask-about-prayer","tag-fatwas-of-prayer","tag-featured","tag-funeral","tag-ghusl","tag-ghusl-al-maiyet","tag-how-muslims-pray","tag-how-to-pray","tag-janazah-in-islam","tag-muhammad-salah","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-purification","tag-purity","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-taharah","tag-virtues-of-washing-the-dead","tag-washing-a-dead-person","tag-washing-ones-dead-husband","tag-washing-ones-dead-wife","tag-washing-the-body-of-muslim","tag-washing-the-dead-mother","tag-washing-the-deceased"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Washing-the-Dead-Body-of-his-Mother.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}