The Ruling on Placing a Box to Collect Money for Condolences

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to place a box to collect money for condolences, such that when a person dies, the family takes from this box and holds feasts for them?

Answer:
The practice of condolences is invalid and an innovation, and it imposes burdens on people for which Allah has sent down no authority. It is not permissible to make a box for condolences because it is aiding in sin and innovation. Condolences do not require these matters. In condolences, you pray for the deceased and the living, saying, “May Allah reward you with good and console you in your loss, and may He forgive your deceased,” if you meet him in any place. Or you call him on the telephone or mobile phone to console him. There is no need for a gathering, no need for feasts, and no need to suspend work for three days.
The Companions did not suspend work for three days. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, and they did not make it a period of condolence lasting three days.
Abu Bakr, 'Umar, and 'Uthman passed away, and whoever passed away among the Companions, did they ever do this? For this reason, one of the Companions said, “We used to consider gathering at the house of the deceased and preparing food to be part of wailing.”