May A Buried Corpse Be Taken From The Grave And Transferred To Another Place?

May a buried corpse be taken from the grave and transferred to another place?

It is not permissible in religious terms to take a corpse from the grave to be transferred to another place unless there are obligatory conditions such as a road construction on the place of the grave or the grave’s being submerged, or the landlord’s not letting it be buried in his land (Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, III, 146; Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-falah, s. 223; Mehmed Zihni, Ni‘met al-Islam, p. 603).

Reasons such as the dead person’s will, his relatives’ having difficulty in visiting the grave, or not having a road to the grave are not excuses for transferring a grave.

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