The ruling on gathering in the deceased's house for condolences and eating for days

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. The listener, Ali Falah Ali al-Sa'd al-Zahrani, sent a question saying: When a person dies, his relatives and friends gather and collect a number of slaughtered animals in the house of the bereaved family, and they stay there for a period of three days to a week, eating from those animals. We ask for guidance: Is that permissible or not?

Answer:
Condolences are prescribed. One consoles the bereaved, prays for them, and prays for the deceased if he was a Muslim, saying: "May Allah improve your consolation, may Allah recompense your loss, and may Allah forgive your deceased." This is done without scheduling this gathering or designating a specific place for condolences. Rather, condolences are prescribed when you meet your bereaved brother, whether in the mosque, the shop, the market, or his home, without setting appointments, committing to it, or having the family of the deceased sit in the house for days waiting for people to come to console them. All these matters should not be adhered to. The obligatory thing is patience, endurance, and seeking reward from Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). These are customs adopted by people that should be abandoned due to the hardships, expenses, and the burden on visitors of losing their work that they entail. They may come to this gathering when they do not wish to, coming only out of social obligation and to avoid what is said if they delay and do not come.
for the Muslims, and a lightening of the burdens that . It is prescribed to prepare food for the family of the deceased to serve to them so they may eat, because they are preoccupied with the calamity and do not have the time to prepare food for themselves, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , for they have been struck by something that occupies them. As for gathering sheep and bags of food, and opening a place for hospitality and gatherings, all of this is among the practices and burdens that .
And not everyone is pleased with this. Most of those who come, as we mentioned, come reluctantly because they are bound by these customs. If they abandoned them, they would be subject to blame and reproach, and perhaps hatred and stinginess would arise because of it. Yes.