The ruling on holding funeral gatherings with feasts and reciting the Qur'an, and repeating the gathering after forty days

Question:
I ask for your guidance, may Allah reward you with good, regarding the funeral gathering and the preparation of feasts, and bringing a shaykh to recite the Qur'an. And after forty days from his death, they hold a gathering a second time. Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
All of this is not permissible, and it is an innovation and an imposition of burdens . What is prescribed is making du'a' for the deceased, seeking forgiveness for him, and giving charity on his behalf after settling his debts and what is obligatory upon him of rights. This is what benefits the deceased. As for these feasts and these expensive traditions, these are ; they must be abandoned and one must forbid them, because they are of no benefit, but rather they are harmful to the living and to the dead.