Ruling on Providing Money and Food to the Family of the Bereaved

You also said: I heard from your noble program in one of the episodes, when one of the listeners asked about condolences, that when a person dies, people come to console his family and provide them with money and slaughtered animals, recording them as a debt. You answered that this is not permissible, and that if the deceased's debt is paid from this money, it is not permissible? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: This requires detailed explanation: Perhaps some of the scholars who spoke on this program addressed it with some detail, and this requires detailed explanation: If the one who brought the gift of food or money intended to console the family of the deceased, and his intention was to be kind to them, then there is nothing wrong with it. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his family to prepare food for the family of the deceased when the news of the death of his cousin Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) arrived, and he said: If the family of the deceased are poor and their brothers, relatives, or neighbors prepare food for them, or if they are not poor but they prepare food for them because they are preoccupied with preparing food due to the calamity, there is nothing wrong with that. Or if they give them a gift because they are poor, or money to meet their needs, there is nothing wrong with that. However, if it is agreed upon that it is a loan, and that they will return it to them when they experience a death and have a condolence gathering, that these people will return to them what they took, this is not advisable; this is not good. This is not good, even if they take it as a loan for their need, and as a loan for their need, and then return it to them in exchange. There is nothing wrong with that, but this may be lost on them, and they may not care about it, as long as the owners intended it as a loan, or intended it as a compensation for them in the future. So leaving this is better and safer; because this may be missed by people, they may not have a death in their family, and they may not have a condolence gathering in the near future, and it will be forgotten. It should be returned if it is through this path; it is not accepted. But if it is in the category of consolation, in the category of kindness, not in the category of loan and compensation, there is nothing wrong with it.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.