Can A Deceased Be Taken From The Place Of Death To Another Place And Buried There?

Can a deceased be taken from the place of death to another place and buried there?

It is mustahab to bury a person to the cemetery of his/her place of death. Except some cases, the Companions were generally buried at where they died. However, it is permissible in religious terms to take it to another city or country and bury there if there is no worry about corpse’s being decayed. As a matter of fact, it is narrated that the Companion Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas and Said ibn Zayd (ra) died in a place named Akik outside Medina but were buried in Medina (Muwatta, Jana’îz, 31; Aliyy al-qari, Fath Bab al-‘inayah, I, 457).

Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWA