The ruling on traveling to attend the funeral prayer and to console the deceased's family
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What is the ruling on traveling to attend the funeral prayer and to console the deceased's family?
If this funeral is for someone who has a general or specific right, there is nothing wrong with a person traveling for it. This is not from the category of traveling to graves. The same applies to consoling the family, but traveling for the consolation will necessitate the deceased's family gathering in the house and receiving people, and this is a religious innovation. Jariyy ibn 'Abd Allah al-Bajali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: [We considered gathering with the deceased's family and preparing food to be part of wailing] People in some areas today do even more than this; they gather, arrange chairs, and turn on the lights. If you pass by their house, it is as if you are passing by a wedding house. This is undoubtedly a religious innovation. The deceased does not benefit from it, and they do not benefit either, because they increase the waste of time and money and the contradiction of the guidance of the Salaf. Therefore, we advise our Muslim brothers to say to them: Leave these customs, for there is no good in anything that the Salaf did not do.
If this funeral is for someone who has a general or specific right, there is nothing wrong with a person traveling for it. This is not from the category of traveling to graves. The same applies to consoling the family, but traveling for the consolation will necessitate the deceased's family gathering in the house and receiving people, and this is a religious innovation. Jariyy ibn 'Abd Allah al-Bajali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: [We considered gathering with the deceased's family and preparing food to be part of wailing] People in some areas today do even more than this; they gather, arrange chairs, and turn on the lights. If you pass by their house, it is as if you are passing by a wedding house. This is undoubtedly a religious innovation. The deceased does not benefit from it, and they do not benefit either, because they increase the waste of time and money and the contradiction of the guidance of the Salaf. Therefore, we advise our Muslim brothers to say to them: Leave these customs, for there is no good in anything that the Salaf did not do.