What is the ruling on a wife washing her deceased husband, and a husband washing his deceased wife? And is it true that if a death certificate is issued for a husband and then it turns out that he is alive, he must remarry his wife?
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The preponderant view is the permissibility for each spouse to wash the other after death.
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