Making Food During The Mourning Period

Making food during the mourning period
Question
What is the ruling on making food during the period
of mourning? What is the ruling on guests of the
household eating the food that has been brought to
them?
Answer
Praise be to Allaah.
It is better for neighbours and relatives to make food
in their own houses then bring it to the household (of
the deceased), because it was narrated that when
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) heard that his cousin Ja’far ibn Abi Taalib (may
Allaah be pleased with him) had died in the Battle of
Mu’tah, he told his family to make food for the family
of Ja’far, and said, “Because there has come to them
that which will preoccupy them.”
But it is not permitted for the family to make food for
people because for the sake of the deceased. This is
one of the actions of the Jaahiliyyah, whether it is
done on the day of the death, or on the fourth or
tenth day after the death, or at the new year. All of
that is not permitted, because it was narrated that
Jareer ibn ‘Abd-Allaah al-Bajali (may Allaah be
pleased with him) – one of the companions of the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
– said, “We used to count gathering with the family
of the deceased and making food for them after the
burial to be a kind of wailing (niyaahah).”
But if guests come to the family of the deceased
during the mourning period, there is nothing wrong
with them making food for them for the sake of
hospitality, and there is nothing wrong with the
household inviting whoever they want of their
neighbours and relatives to eat with them from the
food that has been given to them. And Allaah is the
Source of strength.
Source: Majmoo’ Fataawa Wa Maqaalaat
Mutanawwi’ah Li Samaahat Al-Shaykh Al-‘Allaamah
‘Abd Al-‘Azeez Ibn ‘Abd-Allaah Ibn Baaz (May Allaah
Have Mercy On Him), Vol. 9, P. 325

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