Washing and shrouding of a martyr

Question

Nowadays, in communal riots, Muslims are killed merely for the “crime” of being Muslims. In such cases people wash the slain person and, removing the blood-stained clothes, prepare him for burial and shroud him in other cloth. Should they be washed and shrouded in new cloth?

Answer

Muslims who are killed in communal riots — if they are not apostates, are sane and adult, and are not in the state of major ritual impurity (hadath akbar) — then (whether man or woman) they are to be shrouded in that same blood and those same clothes and, without being washed, buried after the prayer is performed over them.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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