Eating at the House of the Deceased

Question

May a person offering condolences eat at the home of the family of the deceased or not? For the scholars have written with proofs that one should not eat at the home of the family of the deceased. Regarding not eating anything at the home of the family of the deceased for three days, and about the tenth-day and fortieth-day memorial gatherings, there is [already] a clarification.

Answer

The “food of the family of the deceased” [that is meant] is that which by custom is made binding upon the family of the deceased in the form of the third-, tenth- and fortieth-day memorial gatherings and the like.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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