from what was preserved for us by Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī (may Allāh have mercy on him), and I do not know why he did not mention all those who narrated it from the other path, those who criticized it for weakness like al-Nawawī and al-ʿAsqalānī, and even al-Zaylaʿī, when he was in most need of it to support his Ḥanafī school of thought! This was noted by the esteemed commentator, who quoted from the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Fatḥ" that he said: "Its isnād is strong." I have not found it now in its sources in "al-Fatḥ." And Allāh knows best. It gains further strength from what ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated (5686) from al-Thawrī from Abū Isḥāq from ʿAlqamah and al-Aswad ibn Yazīd: that Ibn Masʿūd used to say the takbīr on the two ʿĪds nine times, nine times, four times before the recitation, then he would say the takbīr and bow, and in the second [rakʿah] he would recite, and when he finished, he would say the takbīr four times and then bow. Its isnād is authentic as Ibn Ḥazm and others have said. It was also narrated by Ibn Abī Shaybah (2/173) and al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (4/348) from Sufyān from Abū Isḥāq from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Mūsá, and from Ḥammād from Ibrāhīm: that a governor of the governors of Kūfah—Sufyān said: one of them was Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and another said: al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah—sent to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays (meaning Abū Mūsá) and said: This ʿĪd has arrived, so what do you see? They referred the matter to ʿAbd Allāh, who said: Say the takbīr nine times: a takbīr to open the prayer, then say the takbīr three times, then recite a sūrah, then say the takbīr, then bow. Then stand and recite a sūrah, then say the takbīr four times, bowing with one of them. It is authentic from the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Mūsá, who is a trustworthy, reliable person from Ḥimṣ. Likewise, it is authentic from the path of Ibrāhīm, who is Ibn Yazīd al-Nakhaʿī, and although he did not hear from Ibn Masʿūd, it is known from his biography that what he narrates from him is authentic