Juz Tuhfat Eid al-Fitr
- Author died
- 533 AH
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- King Saud University - Scientific Publishing and Presses
Juz Tuhfat Eid al-Fitr (Juzʾ Tuḥfat ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, "The Gift of Eid al-Fitr") is a thematic hadith monograph compiled by the Nishapuri traditionist Zahir ibn Tahir al-Shahami (446–533 AH / 1054–1138 CE), dedicated to traditions and reports concerning the festival of Eid al-Fitr and the two Islamic holidays in general .
Scope and Contents
The monograph comprises 63 chain-supported narrations (musnad), encompassing prophetic hadiths and early reports from the Companions and Successors . The author gathered texts addressing the legal rulings, Sunnah practices, and etiquettes related to Eid, including:
- Confirming the sighting of the new moon of Shawwal and the procedure when visibility is obscured .
- The recommendation and ruling of fasting the six days of Shawwal .
- The rules, rationale, amounts, timing, and obligation of zakat al-fitr .
- The etiquettes of going to and returning from the prayer area (al-musalla), including the Sunnah of eating before leaving for Eid al-Fitr, in contrast to Eid al-Adha where one delays eating until after the sacrifice .
- Festival grooming, including ritual bathing (ghusl), applying perfume, and wearing fine clothing .
- The pronouncement of takbir and tahlil, the prohibition of fasting on the two Eid days, and the boundaries of permissible recreation on the day of Eid .
- The format and rulings of the Eid prayer, the absence of the call to prayer (adhan) and opening announcement (iqama), the specific Quranic recitations, non-obligatory prayers before and after the Eid prayer, and the case of Eid coinciding with Friday .
- Exchanging festival greetings, such as the formulation تقبل الله منا ومنكم ("May God accept [good deeds] from us and from you") .
- The attendance of women at the Eid prayer, the imam's sermon and exhortation directed toward them, and the listening to the sermon .
Transmission and Manuscripts
The work was transmitted from al-Shahami through prominent students and scholars, notably the Damascene historian and traditionist Ibn Asakir (Abu al-Qasim 'Ali ibn al-Hasan), and later through his son Abu Muhammad al-Qasim . Other chains of transmission run through transmitters such as Abu Ruh 'Abd al-Mu'izz al-Harawi and the chief judge Abu al-Qasim 'Abd al-Samad ibn Muhammad al-Ansari .
A manuscript copy is preserved in the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (registered under Majmuʿ 81, folios 190–198) . Spanning ten folios, the manuscript contains historical audition certificates (samaʿat) and an inscription recording its endowment (waqf) to the Madrasa al-Diya'iyya on Mount Qasiyun . The text has been edited and published with a critical study by 'Abd al-'Aziz Mukhtar Ibrahim .
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