Notes on Errors:

First: In the section on “His Guidance Regarding the Two Eids” in his valuable work, Zād al-Maʿād, Ibn al-Qayyim—may Allah have mercy on him—cited the hadith under discussion in full, but with the wording: “He stands upon his mount.” Yet he did not attribute it to anyone. Despite this, its two annotators claimed (1/445): “Its chain of transmission is authentic, and the author will shortly mention the narrators in the chain.” That is what they said! Yet, as will follow, there is no mention of the wording “mount.”

In my view—and Allah knows best—the wording in Zād al-Maʿād is that of Ibn Mājah, differing from it only by a few letters. For the wording in the printed editions is the wording cited above, except for “mount”; there it reads, “his feet.” It therefore appears that Ibn al-Qayyim’s copy of Ibn Mājah contained the wording “his mount.” For this reason, Ibn al-Qayyim—may Allah have mercy on him—followed it with the words: “I had thought that this was an error, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would go out to the Eid prayer only on foot, with a short spear carried before him. He delivered the sermon upon his mount only on the Day of Sacrifice at Minā—until I saw that the hadith scholar Baqī ibn Makhlad had mentioned this hadith in his Musnad from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn Qays narrated to us…”

I say: He then cited the hadith in full, but he had gone far afield, for the hadith is found in Ibn Abī Shaybah’s al-Muṣannaf, as noted earlier in its source documentation, and Baqī ibn Makhlad narrated it from him. He then cited it through Abū Bakr ibn Khallād: Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us: Dāwūd narrated to us… This is in Musnad Aḥmad (3/36), and, like the preceding report, it contains no mention of the mount. Moreover, its wording contradicts this, as I have already explained. Ibn al-Qayyim therefore concluded his remarks by saying: