Jurisprudential Rulings Pertaining To Exhumation Of A Corpse After Burial (Health Awareness And Preservation Of The Rights Of The Deceased): Examples Of Efforts By The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

The legally established principle is that if a person has been buried and buried, it is not permissible to remove him from the grave because it is a form of dishonor, and the honor of the dead is to bury him, but sometimes there is a criminal suspicion, so the competent authorities issue a permit to remove the body in order to conduct a forensic autopsy, or he is buried with the dead person based on his will, valuable money that his heirs are more deserving of, which necessitates removing this money, and other justifications mentioned by jurists, both ancient and modern, and what is buried from this money is considered an essential element in the economic life of the heirs, and they are more deserving of it. The objectives of the research were represented in the following matters, the most important of which are: 1 - Providing legal answers to questions related to removing the body of the dead after burial. 2 - Monitoring a group of scattered rulings related to this topic in one place. 3 - Proving the ability of Sharia to find appropriate solutions to people's problems in their lives. The research concluded with a group of scientific results that we explained at the end. It also concluded with a set of important recommendations listed at the end, which are related and connected to the scope of this research.