The distinguished scholar, Shaykh Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir⦗1⦘—the renowned ḥadīth authority—has authored an excellent and beneficial study on performing the ʿĪd prayer in the open prayer-ground (muṣallā) and on women’s attendance there. Because of the benefits it contains, I thought it appropriate to reproduce his words here. He, may Allah have mercy on him, wrote in his commentary on al-Tirmidhī (2/421–424), after citing the first ḥadīth and mentioning Ibn Jurayj’s question to ʿAṭāʾ recorded under the fourth ḥadīth: “Is it truly incumbent on the imām, once he has finished, to come to the women and admonish them?” He replied, “Yes, by my life ….” Shaykh Aḥmad continued:
“The statements of the scholars on this are in full agreement.
“Al-ʿAllāmah al-ʿAynī the Ḥanafī, while deriving rulings from the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd in his commentary on al-Bukhārī (6/280–281), said: ‘The report indicates going out to the muṣallā and that one should not perform the prayer in the mosque except out of necessity.’”