Narrated Um `Atiya: We used to be ordered to come out on the Day of `Id and even bring out the virgin girls from their houses and menstruating women so that they might stand behind the men and say Takbir along with them and invoke Allah along with them and hope for the blessings of that day and for purification from sins.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar On the day of `Id-ul-Fitr and `Id-ul-Adha a spear used to be planted in front of: the Prophet I (as a Sutra for the prayer) and then he would pray.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Umar: The Prophet used to proceed to the Musalla and an 'Anaza used to be carried before him and planted in the Musalla in front of him and he would pray facing it (as a Sutra).
Read More..Narrated Muhammad: Um 'Atiyya said: Our Prophet ordered us to come out (on `Id day) with the mature girls and the virgins staying in seclusion. Hafsa narrated the above mentioned Hadith and added, The mature girls or virgins staying in seclusion but the menstruating women had to keep away from the Musalla.
Read More..Narrated Ibn `Abbas: I (in my boyhood) went out with the Prophet on the day of `Id ul Fitr or Id-ul-Adha. The Prophet prayed and then delivered the Khutba and then went towards the women, preached and advised them and ordered them to give alms.
Read More..Narrated Al-Bara': The Prophet went towards Al-Baqi (the graveyard at Medina) on the day of Id-ul-Adha and offered a two-rak`at prayer (of `Id-ul-Adha) and then faced us and said, On this day of ours, our first act of worship is the offering of prayer and then we will return and slaughter the sacrifice, and whoever does this concords with our Sunna; and whoever slaughtered his sacrifice before that (i.e. before the prayer) then that was a thing which he prepared earlier for his family and it would not be considered as a Nusuk (sacrifice.) A man stood up and said, O, Allah's Apostle! I slaughtered (the animal before the prayer) but I have a young she-goat which is better than an older sheep. The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said to him, Slaughter it. But a similar sacrifice will not be sufficient for anybody else after you.
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