Putting plastic over the shroud to stop a foul odour
Question We work for a charity that washes the dead, and sometimes there come to us bodies of people who have been dead for several days so they have started to rot, or sometimes they have cuts because of accidents, and there is a lot of blood. So we wrap some plastic over part of…
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Praise be to Allah.
There is nothing wrong with putting plastic over the shroud,
to stop blood and unpleasant smells coming out. But if perfume is enough to
stop the unpleasant smell, then you should stick to using that.
Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
Some of those who wash the dead put a plastic bag over the one who has died
in a car accident so that the blood will not come out onto the shroud.
He replied:
There is nothing wrong with putting something over the wound
to seal it. End quote from Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz
(13/128).
And Allaah knows best.
