📚 Source: Fatāwā ʿIlmiyyah, Vol. 3 – Issues Related to Ṣalāh, p. 118
Question
Is it Sharʿīly proven to say “تَقَبَّلَ اللَّهُ مِنَّا وَمِنْكُمْ“ to each other after the Eid prayer?
Answer
Al-ḥamdu lillāh, waṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-salāmu ʿalā Rasūlillāh. Ammā baʿd:
1 – Mawdūʿ and Ḍaʿīf Marfūʿ Reports
First Report
- Sources: al-Kāmil (Ibn ʿAdī, 6/2274), al-Majruḥīn (Ibn Ḥibbān, 2/301), al-Sunan al-Kubrā (al-Bayhaqī, 3/319), al-ʿIlal al-Mutanāhiyah (Ibn al-Jawzī, 1/476 – “This ḥadīth is not ṣaḥīḥ”), al-Tadwīn fī Akhbār Qazwīn (1/342), Silsilah al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah (al-Albānī, 12/385–386, no. 5666).
- Fabricated due to Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Shāmī.
- Imām al-Dāraquṭnī: kadhdhāb (liar).
- Ibn Ḥibbān: used to fabricate ḥadīths upon the people of Shām.
- Al-Ḥākim: narrated fabricated ḥadīths from al-Walīd ibn Muslim and Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
Second Report
- Sources: al-Sunan al-Kubrā (al-Bayhaqī, 3/319–320), Amālī Ibn Shamʿūn (p. 277), al-Majruḥīn (Ibn Ḥibbān, 2/149), al-ʿIlal al-Mutanāhiyah (2/57–58 – “Not ṣaḥīḥ”), Tārīkh Dimashq (36/69).
- Weak due to ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zayd ibn Wāqid.
- Imām al-Bukhārī: munkar al-ḥadīth.
- The chain is also munqaṭiʿ (Makhūl did not meet ʿUbādah).
- Ibn Ḥajar declared it weak (Fatḥ al-Bārī, 2/446).
2 – Authentic Athār of Ṣaḥābah, Tābiʿīn, and Aʾimmah
① Abū Umāmah and Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ رضي الله عنهما
- When met on Eid day, they would say: Taqabbalallāhu minnā wa minkum, and respond: Wa minnā wa minkum.
- Chain: Authentic (Mukhtaṣar Ikhtilāf al-Fuqahāʾ, 4/385).
② Jubayr ibn Nufayr رحمه الله
- The Companions, when meeting on Eid, would say: Taqabbalallāhu minnā wa minkum.
- Chain: Ḥasan; authenticated by Ibn Ḥajar (Fatḥ al-Bārī, 2/446).
③ Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr al-Saksakī رحمه الله
- Witnessed ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr al-Māzinī رضي الله عنه, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Rāshid ibn Saʿd, and others exchanging this greeting on Eid.
- Chain: Ḥasan (Tārīkh Dimashq, 26/106).
④ Imām Mālik رحمه الله
- When asked, he replied: “This is the practice in Madīnah, and we consider it permissible.”
- Chain: Ḥasan (Kitāb al-Thiqāt, Ibn Ḥibbān, 9/90).
⑤ Imām Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj رحمه الله
- On Eid day, Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd greeted him with Taqabbalallāhu minnā wa minkum.
- No valid criticism on the chain (Kitāb al-Duʿāʾ, al-Ṭabarānī, 2/1334, no. 929).
⑥ Practice of Later Scholars
- Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī noted his teachers and contemporaries (Bakār ibn Qutaybah, al-Muzanī, Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī ʿImrān) responding with this same greeting when greeted on Eid.
(Mukhtaṣar Ikhtilāf al-ʿUlamāʾ, 4/385)
Conclusion
- The marfūʿ aḥādīth are weak or fabricated.
- However, the practice is authentically established from the Companions, Tābiʿīn, and great Imāms.
- Therefore, saying “Taqabbalallāhu minnā wa minkum” on Eid day is permissible and mustaḥabb (recommended).
ھذا ما عندي والله أعلم بالصواب
Date: 31 October 2009
