The Method of Offering Eid Salah
Some of the masails applies specifically to Hanafi madhab/maslak, but the article is not limited to.
Offerring Eid Salah in Congregation is Highly Emphasized. It is Sunnah Mu'akkadahThe method of offering Eid ul-Fitr salat is as follows:
- the following intention should be made: "I intend offering two rakaats wajib of Eid ul-Fitr salat with six wajib takbeers."
- After making this intention, he should commence his salat.
- He must recite the thanaa' and then say Allahu Akbar three times. Each time that he says Allahu Akbar, he should raise his hands to his ears just as he does for the takbeer-e-tahreemah.
- After making the takbeer, he should let his hands rest at his sides. In-between each takbeer, he should pause to such an extent that he can read Sub'haanallah three times. After the third takbeer, he should not rest his hands but tie them.
- He should then read the ta'awwudh and bismillah, Surah Fatiha and another Surah. Thereafter, he should make his ruku and sajdahs and stand up as he normally does.
- In the second rakaat, he should first recite Surah Fatiha and another Surah.
- Thereafter, he should make three takbeers but after the third takbeer he should not tie his hands but leave them at his sides.
- He should then make one more takbeer and go into ruku.
- After the salat, the imam has to stand on the mimbar and deliver two khutbahs. He should sit down in-between the two khutbahs to the extent that he sits between the khutbahs of jummah.
- Dua should be made after the Eid salat, or even after the khutbah. Although this dua has not been established from the life of Rasulullah (ﷺ), the Sahabah, Taabi'een and even the Tabe-Taabi'een, but because it is sunnah to make a dua after every salaat, it will be preferable to make it after the Eid salaat as well.
- The khutbahs of Eid should commence with the takbeers. The takbeer should be said nine times in the first khutbah and seven times in the second khutbah.
The method of Eid ul-Ad'haa salat is the same as that mentioned above, and the sunnahs of Eid ul-Fitr will also apply here. The difference is that when making the intention for the salat.
