Giving a sick person the blood of another person

Question

Question: According to the Shari‘a, may the blood of one person be introduced into the body of another person as treatment, when in the doctors’ opinion it is becoming difficult to save the patient’s life?

Answer

The blood of one person cannot be introduced into the body of another person, because this entails deriving benefit from a part of a human being, and deriving benefit from a part of a human being is haram: [ar]قوله: وإن حرم استعماله، أي استعمال جلده، أو استعمال الآدمي بمعنى أجزائه، وبه يظهر التفريع بعده[/ar] “His words ‘even though its use is forbidden’, i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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