I said: To what is this attributed? He said: He heard it—I think—from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). He said: They would not go out until the forenoon was extended, and they would say: We eat so that we do not hasten in our prayer. I said: And this isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs. Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated (2/161) through the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: When you go out on the day of Eid—meaning Eid al-Fiṭr—eat even if it is a date. And its isnād is authentic, and this ʿAbd Allāh is the Anṣārī Abū al-Walīd. In the meaning of the ḥadīth of the chapter is what al-Bayhaqī narrated (3/283) with an authentic chain from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib who said: The Muslims would eat on the day of Eid al-Fiṭr before the prayer; and they would not do that on the day of Eid al-Aḍḥá. For the "Muslims" in this report are the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who received this sunnah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and it is what is meant by Ibn ʿAbbās's statement: "from the sunnah"; as is established in the science of ḥadīth terminology. Moreover, the ḥadīth has many explicit witnesses raised to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam); like the ḥadīth of Anas: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) would not go out on the day of Eid al-Fiṭr until he ate dates." It was narrated by al-Bukhārī and others. Some weak narrators added "seven dates," and for this reason, I included it in the other book (4248)