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April 2012:
Egyptian parliamentarians try to pass a "Farewell Intercourse" law
legalizing sex with ones wife up to six hours after she dies.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html
Does Islam prohibit this practice?
The proposed Egyptian "Farewell Intercourse" law is based on the following hadith*...
* Hadith: Deeds and sayings of Muhammad the Prophet of Islam.
Kanz al-Ummal, Al-Hindi # 37611 (13/610)
37611 - :
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Translation:
Muhammad said: I have dressed her (Fatima, the dead woman) in my shirt so that
she may be dressed in heavenly robes and I have laid with her in her grave so that
the pressure of the grave may be alleviated from her.
Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, took off his shirt and placed it on a dead woman
and "lay with her" in her grave.
The Arabic root-word used for "Intercourse" in the phrase "Farewell Intercourse"
is derived from the same root-word that Muhammad used to explain what he did
with the dead woman: (d-j-)
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Translation:
The "Farewell Intercourse (root-word: d-j-')" Law allows having sex
within the first six hours of the death.
compare with:
...I have laid (root-word: d-j-') with her in her grave...
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Since then, and based on this hadith, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that sexual
intercourse with a dead woman is... "not a big deal"
Al-Mabsout, Imam Al-Sarkhasi 5/133
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Translation:
Sexual intercourse with a dead woman is not an impediment to marriage. (i.e. a man
can marry a dead woman's daughter after having sex with the corpse of her mother)
In the same book:
Al-Mabsout, Imam Al-Sarkhasi 5/139
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Translation:
Sexual intercourse after death is not (really) sexual intercourse.
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Other sources:
Usul Al-Sarkhasi, Imam Al-Sarkhasi 1/93
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Translation:
Sexual intercourse with a dead woman is not an impediment to marriage.
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More sources:
Al-Inaya Sharh Al-Hidaya, Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Baberti 5/138
Translation:
Sexual intercourse with a dead woman is not an impediment to marriage.
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By unanimous consent:
Al-Jawhara Al-Nayyera, Abu Bakr bin Ali Al-Zubaidi 4/93
Translation:
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And more sources:
Hawashi Al-Sharwani v.1 p.263
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Translation:
It is not necessary to rewash the dead after penetration...
There is no punishment for having intercourse with a dead woman...
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There is no punishment for having intercourse with a dead woman.
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Cartoon from Egypt
Daily Mail:
Egyptian parliament
discusses law
allowing sex
with dead wife
O please, manwhere were you
when I was alive!
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MUSLIMS
keep your heads down.