to al-Baqiʿ¹—according to another wording, to the prayer-ground—where he prayed two rakʿahs. He then turned to face us and said: “The first rite² we are to perform on this day is to begin with the prayer and then return to slaughter. Whoever does so has matched our sunnah. As for the one who slaughtered beforehand, it is merely meat he hastened for his family; it has nothing to do with the rite.”
Reported by al-Bukhārī 2/372 (this is his wording); Aḥmad 4/282; and al-Mahamili 2, nos. 90 and 96. The alternative narration is recorded by both with a ḥasan chain.
The fourth ḥadīth:
Ibn ʿAbbās was asked, “Did you attend the ʿEid with the Prophet ﷺ?” He replied, “Yes, and had it not been for my young age I would not have done so. He came to the mound by the house of Kathīr ibn al-Ṣalt³, prayed, and then delivered the sermon…"