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When a grave is purified of the deceased's bones and they are returned to it, will the reckoning be initiated once more?

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It is not permissible to exhume the graves of the dead except for a legitimate Shar'i reason, such as cleaning the grave. The reckoning of the dead is a singular event and does not recur due to exhumation.

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