400 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ prayed two rakʿahs on the day of ʿEid; he did not pray anything before them nor after them. Reported by the Seven (1).

401 – Abu Saʿīd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Prophet ﷺ would not perform any prayer before the ʿEid, but when he returned to his house he prayed two rakʿahs.” Narrated by Ibn Mājah with a good chain of transmission (2).

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Hadith grading:
This ḥadith is classified as good.

Hadith 401 contains two statements. The first—“The Prophet ﷺ would not pray anything before the ʿEid”—also appears in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās: “The Prophet ﷺ offered no voluntary prayer before the ʿEid nor after it.”

The second statement is: “When he returned to his home he prayed two rakʿahs.”

Ibn Ḥajar says in al-Talkhīṣ that Ibn Mājah narrates it from Abu Saʿīd, and that it is likewise found with al-Ḥākim, who declared its chain sound; al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

Al-Albānī notes that it is only good, because there is some criticism of Ibn ʿAqīl’s accuracy; for that reason Ibn Ḥajar and al-Būṣayrī said: “Its chain is good.”

In the same chapter there is a report from Ibn ʿUmar that says: “He did not pray before it or after it,” which al-Tirmidhī and al-Ḥākim deemed authentic, and al-Dhahabī concurred. It also has supporting evidence from the ḥadith of Ibn ʿAmr, recorded by