A bequest for organ transplantation

Question

Question: What is the ruling on placing an organ of a dying or deceased person — for example the heart, liver, eye, etc. — into the body of another person? Some people, out of a feeling of compassion, make a bequest of this kind: for example, that after my death my eye be removed for someone in need. Is this bequest enforceable or not?

Answer

The liver, eye, heart, etc. of a deceased person cannot be placed into the body of another person. If someone makes such a bequest as is stated in the question, then making this bequest is not permissible, and it is not enforceable: [ar]أحدها أن يوصي بما هو معصية عندنا وعندهم كالوصية للمغنيات والنائحات، فهذا لا يصح إجماعًا[/ar] “The first of them is that he bequeaths something…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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