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layout: post
title: "Ruling on organ transplants"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Majmu' Fatawa wa Maqalat 8/34"
excerpt: "I have a reservation with regard to this matter. The Muslim should be respected and taking away any of his organs will cause harm."
category: [treatments,fatwas]
hijri: Dhul-Qa'dah 31, 1441
date: 2020/07/22
locale: en
lang: en
muftis:
  shaykh: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
---

### Question: 
What is your opinion on the transplantation of human organs which saves the life of many people?

### Answer: 
I have a reservation with regard to this matter. The Muslim should be respected and taking away any of his organs will cause harm. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "**Breaking a dead man's bone is like breaking it when he is alive.**" [^1] 

Thus, I abstain from issuing a Fatwa regarding the ruling of buying and transplanting organs.

### Question: 
You just abstain but do not prohibit it?

### Answer: 
Yes, I abstain only. Some scholars permitted transplantation of human organs, as it becomes dust after burial while others, including me, have abstained from judging it.

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[^1]: Abu Dawud [Book on funerals]no. 3207; Ibn Majah [Book on funerals] no. 1616; [Book on remembrance of Allah, supplication, repentance and seeking forgiveness] p. 6/105.