Removing artificial objects attached to the body of the deceased
17-8-2009 | IslamWeb
Question:
Assalamualikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu.If the decesed have any artifical thing attached in his body eg:teeth,rod in a leg ,lences etc.Is it compulsory to remove it off before burrying the deceased or not?Allah Hafiz
Answer:
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam is His Slave and Messenger.
If a person dies while wearing accessories such as rings and bracelets, they should be removed from his body, for leaving them on his body means loss of property which has become the right of heirs after his death. Neither harm nor humiliation would be inflicted upon the deceased by removing those things, unlike those mentioned in the question, for removing them causes harm to him. Therefore, it is impermissible to remove them from his body.
The Hanbali scholar Al-Mardaawi 
quoted that ibn ‘Aqeel said in “Al-Fusool”: “Similarly, if he sees that he (another person) needs to tighten his teeth with gold, and he gives him a thread of gold, or (that he needs) a nose of gold and he gives it to him to tighten it, after which he dies, it is impermissible to remove it from his body and take it back, for this is a kind of mutilation.”