The Middle East Media Research Institute recently highlighted a YouTube video issued by the former Muftī of Egypt, Nasr Farīd Wāsil, on May 7, 2011. In his presentation, MEMRI quotes him
as saying:

The martyr Bin Lādin, Allah's mercy upon him, waged Jihad for the sake of Allah against the Soviets and against America. … There was a call at the Al-Nour Mosque to pray for the soul of Bin Lādin, since he is a martyr. But I said that we were forbidden to pray for the soul of a martyr, and that bin Laden lives on. He is not dead. 'Do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah to be dead. They live on, sustained by their Lord.' Therefore, I said, immediately after his martyrdom, that he was a martyr, and that he had been killed by the enemies.

The link to the video clip presented by MEMRI can be accessed here.

Arab West Report spoke with Dr. ‘Abd al-Mu‘tī Bayyūmī, member of the Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar. Bayyūmī did not know what would lead the former Muftī to issue a statement such as this. From his personal viewpoint, however, Bayyūmī declared that Bin Lādin killed civilians, and therefore, was not a martyr.

Bayyūmī stated that the Islamic Research Academy has not discussed the question whether or not Bin Lādin was a martyr.