The Ruling on Holding Funerals in the Context of Condolences

Another question, the substance of which is asking about the innovations in condolences, such as inventing seating arrangements, gatherings, and recitations. Our brother also asks about them, if you would be so kind as to direct him, and he says: These expenses are all paid from the deceased's estate, and perhaps the heirs are in dire need of it?
Answer: It is not permissible for the family of the deceased to hold a condolence gathering, meaning: to hold a funeral by preparing food and inviting people to eat and the like, at the expense of the deceased, or at the expense of the deceased's orphans, or at their own expense. All of this is not permissible because it is a matter of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. But they should be patient and seek reward from Allah. Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we return. They should receive the condolers; there is no harm in receiving them. They can pour them coffee or pour them tea; there is no harm in that.
As for holding a funeral with weeping and wailing, or by preparing food for people, this is not permissible. Rather, it is a matter of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. If their house is small and they make a larger space to receive the condolers without holding a funeral or anything else, but merely setting up a tent or a salon that accommodates the condolers, there is no blame on them, provided there is no religious innovation, no funeral, no inventing of wailing, or anything of what Allah has forbidden. It is merely receiving them, greeting them, and pouring coffee and tea. This does no harm, and there is no blame on them, if Allah wills, when the space is narrow.
The presenter: When the space is narrow?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The presenter: But if they bring reciters and the like?
The Shaykh: This is not permissible. This is a religious innovation. ... with reciters or by preparing food, this is a religious innovation. Yes, but if guests come to them and they are shy to leave them without food, and they prepare food for them because they are guests who came from a far place, there is no harm. Or they invite them to the food they have that was sent to them, for the Sunnah is that food is sent to the family of the deceased from their neighbors and relatives. If the guests coincide with this and eat with them, there is no harm.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.