Prophetic Guidance Regarding Condolences and Sitting for Them

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the Prophetic guidance regarding condolences? And what is the ruling on sitting in the home for the purpose of condolences, because people come from outside the town?

Answer:
Offering condolences is permissible; it involves consoling the bereaved. However, it must be within limits, without exaggeration, fatigue, spending money, interrupting work, sitting in homes, or suspending business. These are exaggerations. But if you meet the bereaved in the mosque, at home, on the street, or at the grave after the funeral, you offer condolences to console him, because this mends the heart of your Muslim brother, shares in his calamity, and also comforts him when you console him.
So offering condolences is permissible, but do not exaggerate in it. Do not suspend work for it, set up tents and canopies, prepare many foods, or cause people to suspend their work or travel for the condolence. All of this is not prescribed. This is not prescribed because it causes hardship for people and fatigue for the bereaved. Instead of being occupied with the calamity, he is also occupied with hosting the visitors and preparing food for them. Two things have gathered upon him: the calamity and the fatigue of receiving these people, who become a burden on them. Yes.