What is the ruling on designating specific days for condolences at a house or a rest house, where food is provided for the gathering?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on designating days for condolences, such as gathering in a house or a rest house, where food and drink are provided for this gathering?

Answer:
There is no evidence for this; rather, this is an innovated matter, and it involves burdens, wasting time, wasting money, and neglecting work. All of these things are not permissible. Condolences do not require specific days or sitting. Condolences are as you meet your afflicted brother and console him, or you call him on the mobile phone or the telephone to console him. There are no burdens involved in it. Yes.