Chapter on the Prayer of the Two Eids
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 3|Book 1|Chapter 6
اَلْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ اِبْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ: أَنَّ عَبْدَ اَلْمَلِكِ بْنَ أَعْيَنَ سَأَلَ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَنِ اَلصَّلاَةِ فِي اَلْعِيدَيْنِ فَقَالَ« اَلصَّلاَةُ فِيهِمَا سَوَاءٌ يُكَبِّرُ اَلْإِمَامُ تَكْبِيرَةَ اَلصَّلاَةِ قَائِماً كَمَا يَصْنَعُ فِي اَلْفَرِيضَةِ ثُمَّ يَزِيدُ فِي اَلرَّكْعَةِ اَلْأُولَى ثَلاَثَ تَكْبِيرَاتٍ وَ فِي اَلْأُخْرَى ثَلاَثاً سِوَى تَكْبِيرَةِ اَلصَّلاَةِ وَ اَلرُّكُوعِ وَ اَلسُّجُودِ إِنْ شَاءَ ثَلاَثاً وَ خَمْساً وَ إِنْ شَاءَ خَمْساً وَ سَبْعاً بَعْدَ أَنْ يُلْحِقَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى وَتْرٍ»
Al-Husayn ibn Said from Ibn Abi Umayr from Ibn Udhaynah from Zurarah:
Abd al-Malik ibn Ayan asked Aba Ja’far عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about the prayer on the two Eid days. Imam عليه السلام said: “The prayer in both is the same. The Imam pronounces the takbirah of the prayer while standing, just as he does in the obligatory prayer, then adds in the first rak’ah three takbirs, and in the second three as well, excluding the takbirah of the prayer, the bowing, and the prostration. If he wills, (he may do) three and five, and if he wills, five and seven, as long as he joins them to make an odd number (witr).”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 3, p. 145
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