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Does burying a child with the deceased alleviate the torment of the grave for them, or does it have any merit?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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It has been previously established that the Islamic legal tradition dictates burying each deceased individual in a separate grave, and it is not permissible to exhume a grave to bury another person with them. Furthermore, it is disliked to bury two deceased individuals together in one grave if they died simultaneously. Therefore, the statement that burying a child with the deceased alleviates the torment of the grave for them is incorrect, as it contradicts the Shari'a.

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