The Albaani Site

Translation from the Works of the Reviver of this Century

Tag: Eid

On Saying “كل عام وأنتم بخير” [“May You Be Well Every Year”] on Eid


Someone came in and gave salām to the Shaikh and said, “كل عام وأنتم بخير” [“May you be well every year,” etc., this is said in Arabic speaking countries on Eid] so he said, “This addition has no basis, it is enough for you to say, ‘May Allaah the Most High accept [our deeds] …,’ ‘كل عام وأنتم بخير’ [‘May you be well/blessed every year,’]—this is a greeting of the disbelievers which came to us Muslims due to our heedlessness, ‘And remind, for reminders benefit the believers.’” [51:55]
Al-Hudā wan-Nūr, 323.

On the Takbirs of Eid


Al-Albaani: The sunnah in the takbīr [of ʿEīd] differs from the prevailing sunnah in matters of adhkār, the general sunnah in matters of adhkār is for the dhikr to be done quietly and not out loud, but there are times where this sunnah is not the case and where saying it out loud is what is legislated: the takbīrs of ʿEīd are of this type … the takbirs of ʿEīd al-Aḍḥā are said out loud and not quietly.

Al-Hudā wan-Nūr, 618.