How to give charity on behalf of a deceased person
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We said: Giving charity on behalf of a deceased person is permissible. Some people, when someone dies, are consoled by others at a specific time and place. Then, after a month or a week, they slaughter animals and give charity, citing the hadith you mentioned regarding this?
This is an error. Giving charity on behalf of a deceased person means that a person takes money and gives it to the poor, not that he prepares food. Preparing food and gathering people for it is part of wailing, and wailing is forbidden. Therefore, you will find that these people who prepare food, thinking they are giving charity with it, have both the rich and the poor, the open sinner and the just, the wicked and the chaste attending them, and they do not care. This is a religious innovation and is part of wailing, as Jarir ibn 'Abd Allah al-Bajali said: [We considered gathering at the house of the deceased and preparing food to be part of wailing]
This is an error. Giving charity on behalf of a deceased person means that a person takes money and gives it to the poor, not that he prepares food. Preparing food and gathering people for it is part of wailing, and wailing is forbidden. Therefore, you will find that these people who prepare food, thinking they are giving charity with it, have both the rich and the poor, the open sinner and the just, the wicked and the chaste attending them, and they do not care. This is a religious innovation and is part of wailing, as Jarir ibn 'Abd Allah al-Bajali said: [We considered gathering at the house of the deceased and preparing food to be part of wailing]