عن أنس رضي الله عنه قال: قَدِمَ رسولُ الله ﷺ المدينةَ ولهم يومانِ يَلعبون فيهما، فقال: «ما هذانِ اليومانِ؟!» قالوا: كنا نلعَب فيهما في الجاهلية، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: «إن الله قد أبدلَكم بهما خيرًا منهما؛ يومَ الأضحى، ويومَ الفِطر»
56 - The Eid prayer
Anas ibn Mālik narrated saying:
When God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) migrated to Madinah, its people used to celebrate two days. He asked: ‘What are these two days about?’ They said: ‘We used to celebrate them prior to Islam’. God’s Messenger said: ‘God has replaced them for you with two better days: the Day of [Eid] al-Aḍḥā and the Day of [Eid] al-Fiṭr’.
Related by Abu Dāwūd, 1134; al-Nasāʼī, 1556.
Related Quranic Verses
You are, however, required to complete the necessary number of days and to extol and glorify God for having guided you aright and to tender your thanks.
(2: 185)
Give glory to God during certain appointed days. Those who hasten their departure after two days incur no sin, and those who stay longer incur no sin, provided that they are truly God-fearing. Have fear of God and know well that you shall all be gathered before Him.
(2: 203)
Do not substitute bad things of your own for their good things.
(4: 2)
Say:
‘In God’s bounty and grace, in this let them rejoice; for this is better than all that they may amass’.
(10: 58)
