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What is the ruling regarding burying the deceased in a cemetery other than the one designated for their burial, due to the impossibility of opening the grave because of a recent death in the same cemetery?

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If there is an impediment preventing a woman's burial in the location she requested, there is no harm in burying her in another place within Muslim cemeteries. It is not permissible to exhume her grave thereafter or move her to the location she requested, even if the impediment is removed; for the grave is "a confinement for the deceased that is not to be exhumed" as long as the deceased is within it.

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