This is called bhati food and they say that this is for people who have traveled from far and serving the food benefits the deceassed in some wayPlease can you clarify this because according to a hadith in Abu Dawood the Prophet Muhammed (May peace be upon him) said that relatives and neighbours should provide food for the immediate family of the deceased for a maximum of three days. Jazakallah Khair.
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This is an innovation and a form of wailing that the Prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam forbade.

I am from South Africa and it is the custom here that on the day a person dies, they bury him and return to the house and serve food.