 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إذا كنت تحب شخصاً رمضاناً لأسئلة هذا المنزل يمكنك أن تخبرنا على أسئلة at amu.org السؤال سن answer today is as follows can I pray the Eid prayer at home so there have been a lot of people asking questions about the Eid prayer and how to perform the Eid prayer in a time where it is for most of us we will not be able to attend the Eid prayer in congregation so let's start with the easy option first of all that for those of you who are able to attend the Eid prayer in congregation and there is an Eid prayer that is happening in your locality that is being organized properly in your locality then that is the simple option you go and you pray the Eid with the people and there is no harm if you have to keep social distancing measures some of the scholars they gave a fatwa that the social distancing measures don't invalidate any of the prayers if a person is able to go to the Eid prayer and there is an Eid prayer where they are and they maintain social distancing measures if they are required to do so it's not the usal in our prayer the usal is we make the rules close together but if a person is required to do that then insha'Allah it doesn't invalidate the prayer and they have a fatwa from some of the people of knowledge to support that as for the majority of us who will be praying Eid prayer at home let us look at a fatwa that was given by the legend Ad-Da'ima and it was given by Shaykh Mubaz رحم الله تعالى and others who were on the legend at the time who said ومن فاتته وأحب قضاءها استحب له ذلك فيصليها على صفتها من دون خطبة بعدها وبهذا قال الإمام مالك والشافعي وأحمد والنخاع وغيرهم من أهل العلم they said whoever misses out on the Eid prayer because they weren't talking about whoever can't pray the Eid prayer but whoever misses out on it for whatever reason and wants to make it up it is recommended for them to do that so the person prays it على صفاتها it's the first point they pray the Eid prayer the way that you're meant to pray the Eid prayer with the way the Eid prayer is prayed normally without the خطبة afterwards and the issue of the خطبة in our time is a one where some of our some of the scholars they they said that we have to leave this issue and we search it in more detail because it's not clear when there is no خطبة in the country should there be a خطبة done but for the purpose of this answer we're going to say without the خطبة and the reason for that is two things number one because we don't have a fatua from our scholars telling us to give the خطبة in fact the fatua that we have inclined towards not giving it and number two it's extremely hard for the majority of people at home who would struggle perhaps even with the Eid Salah to lead the Eid Salah it's even harder if we ask for them to do the خطبة so we believe that at the moment the position should be that there is not a خطبة after it but it's just the Eid prayer in the description of it and this is the opinion of Imam Malik and Shafi'a and Ahmed and Ibrahim and Nakhai and others from the people of knowledge رحم الله الجميع and they said in the fatua the scholars of the legend they said و الأصل في ذلك قوله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا أتيتم الصلاة فمشوا و عليكم السكينة والوقار فما أدركتم فصلوا وما فاتكم فقدوا they said that the basic principle is from the hadith if you come to the prayer go with tranquility and calm go slowly and tranquilly so whatever you catch from the prayer pray it and whatever you miss make it up so they said this is a basic principle that we make up the prayers that we can't pray and even more so in our time when there isn't an Eid prayer being held in the first place and they also said وما روح عن أنس رضي الله عن أنه كان إذا فاتته صلاة العيد مع الإمام جمع أهله ومواله ثم قام عبد الله ابني أبي عتبة مولى فيصلي بهم ركعتين يكبر فيهما they said that it was narrated from أنس that if he would miss the Eid prayer then he would gather his family and his موالي the freed slaves and عبد الله ابني عتبة he would lead them in the prayer and he would make the تكبيرات the same like the Eid prayer they would make the تكبيرات like the Eid prayer the same like the Eid prayer so this is the فتوة of the لجنة الدائمة when they asked about making up the Eid prayer for the one who misses it and some of our مشايخ in our time الشيخ صليمار رحيل حفظه الله تعالى they also applied the same principle to the situation that we are in in this moment in time so let's look at some of the Sunan before the prayer I just remind ourselves first of all تكبير making the تكبيرات before the prayer and the the word تكبير here is مطلقة it's not there's no specific wording that you have to use but the most deserving of the wordings are those which are reported from the صحابة from those which are reported from the صحابة even مسعود it's reported from him that the تكبيرات he would make before the prayer is الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله والله أكبر الله أكبر ولي الله الحمد this is authentically reported from even مسعود as for سلمان الفارسي ربي الله عنه he used to say الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر كابيرة that's also from the authentic reports and also from the authentic reports are is the statement الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر ولي الله الحمد الله أكبر وأجل أجل الله أكبر على ما هدانا هذا أيضاً من إبني عباس عن شخل الباني قلت أنه صحي أنه أكبر من عبد الله بن عباس رضي الله عنهما ولكن أفضل مرحباً في هذا هو ما الله عز وجل قلتنا في القرآن وليه تكمل العدة وليه تكبر الله على ما هداكم ولعلكم تشكرون أنك تكمل مرحباً وكذلك تكبير وكذلك تكبيرات لا يوجد حام in that إن شاء الله ولكن it's most deserving to use the al-Fah the words that were reported from the Sahaba رضي الله عنهما من الأشياء التي يجب أن نفعلها أيضاً before the Eid is to eat and that is to demonstrate the difference between رمضان and the day of Eid and the fact that the day of Eid is يوم أكل وشرب وذكر الله it's a day of remember it's a day of eating and drinking and remembering Allah in the days of Eid the days of the days of A'iyad the days of Eid generally are days of eating and drinking they're not days of fasting so you eat something before that to demonstrate and to single out Eid that it's not a day of it's not a day of a day of fasting and the Prophet ﷺ the first thing he would begin with when he would go out to the Mussallah is the Salah so even if there was a khutba the khutba would be after the Salah because of what Al-Bukhari narrated from Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri رضي الله عنهما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يخرج يوم الفطر والأضحة إلى المصالة فأول شيء يبدأ وبهي الصلاة that the Prophet ﷺ would go out on the day of Al-Fitr and Al-Adha to the Mussallah he wouldn't pray in his Masjid he would go out into the open land the place where he would pray the Mussallah and the first thing that he would begin with was the Salah so we have the Tekbirat that come before on the day of Eid before the Salah and then you make the Salah the Salat of Eid and to explain to you the Eid prayer in a simple way because a lot of people might not be familiar with it and might not remember it's only twice a year that you pray it so it's easy to forget is I want you to think of the Eid prayer like the Fajr prayer it's Turaka'at it's read aloud just like you would read Fajr or just like you would read Jumu'a think of it like you would read the Jumu'a prayer Turaka'at and it's read aloud just like that except for one difference and that is there are some extra Tekbirat الله أكبر is said more than that so if it was the Jumu'a prayer how would you how would you pray you'd make the Tekbir you'd make dua'a على استفتاح you'd say الله أكبر then you would make your dua'a سبحانك اللهمة وبحمدك تبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك ولا إله غيرك عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم and then you would read Surah Al-Fatiha right that's how you would do if you were بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم when you read Surah Al-Fatiha just like the Imam would read it in in Jumu'a so the Eid prayer is going to be the same format but the difference is you're going to make Tekbir more now some of the scholars they said does it come before dua'a على استفتاح does it come after dua'a على استفتاح we want to make it simple for this answer we're going to say it doesn't matter whichever you do doesn't matter whether you do it before you say dua'a على استفتاح or whether you make the dua'a سبحانك اللهمة وبحمدك and then you do the extra ones doesn't matter and the extra ones they are six extra in the first raka'a that means seven in total and the scholars differed some of them said seven extra making eight in total but again just to make it simple because we don't want to over complicate things for the purpose of this answer I'm just going to go with my preferred opinion on the issue which is that it is seven including Tekbir تلحرا seven including Tekbir تلحرا so that is you make your first الله أكبر and then six more and you can raise your hands with them as well الله أكبر that's two الله أكبر that's three الله أكبر that's four الله أكبر that's five الله أكبر that's six الله أكبر that's seven and then you're going to start with your if you haven't done your opening to eye, you do it عوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم and you read صورة الفاتحة aloud now the prophet saw them had certain surahs that he would read in the aid prayer if you know them and you can read them الحمد لله that's excellent but if you don't you can read any surah after فاتحة that you want so the surahs he would read صلى الله عليه وسلم is he would read قاف in the first in the first raka'a after فاتحة he would read قاف والقرآن مجيد and in the second raka'a after فاتحة he would read صورة القمر اقتربة الساعة وانشق القمر and sometimes he would read in the first raka'a سبح اسم ربك الأعلى and in the second one هل أتاك حديث الغاشية so the first raka'a goes as normal after the تكبيرات there's nothing extra nothing different then after that you do your ركوع you stand up you do your سجود and so on when you stand up for the second raka'a you make a تكبير as you're getting up right like from سجود in سجود سبحانه رب العالى سبحانه رب العالى سبحانه رب العالى then you stand up as you stand up you say الله أكبر that one's not counted after you've stood up you make five more you make five more and that is so you've said سبحانه رب العالى سبحانه رب العالى سبحانه رب العالى you stood up الله أكبر you standing now now you're gonna make five تكبيرات الله أكبر and that makes five that's five after you've stood up so you stood up you made five تكبيرات and then you read again صورة الفاتحة and your second صورة which was we said if you know it it would be صورة القمر اقتربة الساعة وانشق القمر and if you don't know it then it would you could read الغاشية هل أتاك حديث الغاشية and if you didn't know either of those two then you can read whatever Allah made easy for you to read from the Quran and what remains is to congratulate the people on the day of Eid and from the things the salaf used to say رحمه الله تعالى is they used to say to each other تقبل الله منا ومنكم may Allah accept from us and from you تقبل الله منا ومنكم may Allah accept from us and from you أنا الشيخ بناثيمين رحم الله تعالى he said ما جارت به العادة he said وليس ممنوع شرعا whatever is customary for people to say I give people say ايدكم مبارك or people say كل عامن وانتم بخير may every year go by and you are in the best of health or people say may your Eid be مبارك there is no harm in this there is no harm in this as long as they are not saying something شرعا there is no harm in what people customarily say to each other on Eid like Eid مبارك or something like that there is no harm in that but what the Salaf used to say رحمه الله تعالى is تقبل الله منا ومنكم may Allah accept from us and from you so that's a brief description of the Eid prayer we hope that's been helpful for people to implement that at home please don't be shy of it or worried about it إن شاء الله follow the Sunnah and implement it at home if you're not able to go out and pray Eid with the congregation الله is the general best والصلاة والسلام على بير محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعي