Using and selling the skin removed in circumcision

Question

Question: It has been proposed to set up a strange and unusual bank, to be called a "circumcision bank". Every day throughout the world hundreds of thousands of children are circumcised, and skin of excellent quality is cut off and thrown away. In future this fine skin will also be collected in a bank and used for plastic surgery or skin grafting. Now the scholars will have to give a new fatwa: is it permissible to use the skin removed in circumcision or not?

Answer

Man is the noblest of creatures, and all his parts are worthy of respect. The skin removed in circumcision is also a part of him, and buying and selling it is not permissible: [ar]والآدمي مكرم شرعًا، فإيراد العقد عليه وابتذاله به وإلحاقه بالجمادات إذلال له، أي وهو غير جائز، وبعضه في حكمه، وصرح في فتح القدير ببطلانه[/ar] "The human being is honoured by the Sacred Law, so…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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