On the authority of ʿĀʾishah: that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to say the takbīr in the (prayers of) Fiṭr and Aḍḥā: seven takbīrāt in the first (rakʿah) and five in the second. (1)

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(1) Ḥasan li-ghayrihi (sound due to corroborating evidence), but this chain is weak because of the poor memory of Ibn Lahīʿah — namely ʿAbdullāh — and he was confused in it, as we have explained in *Musnad Aḥmad* (24362). ʿUrwah: he is Ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, and ʿUqayl: he is Ibn Khālid al-Aylī, and Qutaybah: he is Ibn Saʿīd.

It was also narrated by Ibn Mājah (1280) via the path of ʿAbdullāh ibn Wahb, from Ibn Lahīʿah, with this chain. And it is in *Musnad Aḥmad* (24362) and (24409).

And see what follows it.

It is corroborated by the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ that follows with the author at number (1151).

And from ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf al-Muzanī in Ibn Mājah (1277), and al-Tirmidhī (544), who declared it ḥasan. And in *al-ʿIlal al-Kabīr* 1/288, he transmitted from al-Bukhārī his statement: "There is nothing in this chapter more authentic than this, and it is what I hold." And the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭāʾifī, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, on this topic is also ṣaḥīḥ. [We say: meaning by it the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ referred to just above.]

And from Abū Hurayrah as a mawqūf (statement/action of a Companion) in Mālik 1/180, al-Shāfiʿī in *al-Umm* 1/236, Ibn Abī Shaybah 2/173, Abū Bakr al-Firyābī in *Aḥkām al-ʿĪdayn* (109–115), ʿAbdullāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in his *Masāʾil* from his father (603), al-Ṭaḥāwī in *Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār* 4/344, and al-Bayhaqī 3/288. Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ, and something like this is not done on the basis of personal opinion and ijtihād.

And from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās, likewise as mawqūf, in Ibn Abī Shaybah 2/176, Ibn al-Mundhir in *al-Awsaṭ* 4/273–274 and 274, Abū Bakr al-Firyābī in *Aḥkām al-ʿĪdayn* (129), and al-Bayhaqī 3/288 and 289. Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ.

Ibn al-Mundhir said in *al-Awsaṭ* 4/274: And this is what Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī, al-Zuhrī, Mālik ibn Anas, al-Awzāʿī, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, and Isḥāq held. Al-Shāfiʿī said: The takbīrat al-iftitāḥ (opening takbīr) is not among the seven, nor is the takbīr for standing up among the five in the second (rakʿah). And Abū Thawr said: He says seven takbīrāt including the takbīrat al-iftitāḥ, and he stands for the second (rakʿah) to say five takbīrāt. And some of al-Shāfiʿī's companions objected to him, saying: Since the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, established the takbīr over the funeral prayer as four, with the takbīrat al-iftitāḥ included therein, it is incumbent upon the people to say seven takbīrāt in the first rakʿah of the ʿĪd prayer, excluding the takbīrat al-iftitāḥ.

And see the completion of the statements reported on this matter in his work.