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Is my prayer valid if some of the flesh of a dead body got on my clothes during an autopsy and I prayed in them?

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The human corpse and its parts are, according to the more preponderant opinion, pure. Clothes touched by any part of the corpse are also pure, and it is permissible to pray in them, unless they have been stained with blood, in which case they must be purified due to its impurity according to the majority of scholars. Ritual bathing (ghusl) is not obligatory upon touching a dead body directly or indirectly; rather, it is enjoined upon one who washes the dead, as stated in the hadith: "Whoever washes a deceased person should perform ghusl."

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