On the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib, who said: I attended the ʿĪd (prayer) with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. When he had finished the prayer, he said: "We are going to deliver the sermon, so whoever wishes to sit for the sermon, let him sit, and whoever wishes to leave, let him leave." (1)

Abū Dāwūd said: This is mursal (i.e., its chain is interrupted at the Companion level).

‌‌253 - Chapter: Going out to the ʿĪd (prayer) by one route and returning by another

1156 - ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh — meaning Ibn ʿUmar — narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ

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(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, but there is a difference of opinion regarding whether it is connected (mawṣūl) or interrupted (mursal), and the correct view is that it is mursal. Only al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sīnānī uniquely narrated it as connected, and he was contradicted by Sufyān al-Thawrī, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and Hishām ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣanʿānī, who all narrated it from Ibn Jurayj — who is ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz — from ʿAṭāʾ — who is Ibn Abī Rabāḥ — as mursal. Those who declared the mursal version authentic include, like the author (Abū Dāwūd): Ibn Maʿīn, as in Tārīkh ʿAbbās al-Dūrī 3/15; Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī, as in al-ʿIlal of Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī 1/180; and al-Nasāʾī, as quoted from him by al-Mizzī in Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf 4/347, and also quoted from him by al-Mundhirī in Mukhtaṣar al-Sunan, and quoted by al-Zaylaʿī in Naṣb al-Rāyah 2/149.

Shaykh al-Albānī, may Allah have mercy on him, erred when he declared this ḥadīth authentic in al-Irwāʾ (629), following Ibn al-Turkumānī 3/301, both being heedless of the other chains of the ḥadīth, and thus arriving at that conclusion. This is because the ḥadīth was narrated by three major trustworthy scholars who transmitted it as mursal, as we have mentioned, and the scholars of ḥadīth have affirmed that the ḥadīth is mursal.

It was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (1290) and al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (1792) via the chain of al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sīnānī, with this isnād.

It was also recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (5670), and likewise by al-Bayhaqī 3/301, and al-Muḥāmilī in Ṣalāt al-ʿĪdayn, folio 137, via the chain of Sufyān al-Thawrī; and Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī in al-ʿIlal of Ibn Abī Ḥātim 1/180 via the chain of Hishām ibn Yūsuf — all three of them (ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Hishām) narrating from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAṭāʾ, as mursal.