Handshaking After the Two Eid Prayers

Question

Last year a handbill was published here, and this year a pamphlet, in which handshaking (musafaha) and embracing (mu‘anaqa) after the two Eid prayers were declared to be sunna. In reply to this a certain person has written an article entitled “Radd-e Tuhfa”, which is being sent to you. Kindly look through it and correct it; and if further statements of the ulama and of reliable books can be found on this matter, please oblige us by writing them down with the page and volume references.

Answer

‘Allama Shami ﵀ rejected this handshake in the “Kitab al-Jana’iz” as well — under the words of “al-Durr” “يقول واضعه: باسم الله وبالله”, in a note (tanbih). The text of “al-Madkhal” (vol. 2, p. 288) is as follows: [ar]أَمَّا الْمُعَانَقَةُ فَقَدْ كَرِهَهَا مَالِكٌ وَأَجَازَهَا ابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، أَعْنِي عِنْدَ اللِّقَاءِ غَيْبَةً كَانَتْ، وَأَمَّا فِي الْعِيدِ لِمَنْ هُوَ…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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