The “Fast” on Eid al-Adha until the Eid Prayer

Question

Concerning what in common usage is called a “fast” on Eid al-Adha, Zayd says: “It has no significance at all — what sort of fast is that? A fast lasts the whole day.” Bakr, however, says that it was the noble habit and sunna of the Prophet ﷺ that on the day of Eid al-Fitr he would eat something sweet before performing the Eid prayer, so that people would know there is no fast today; and on the day of Eid al-Adha, from true dawn (subh sadiq)

Answer

What Bakr has stated about the Prophet ﷺ is correct. Some commentators of hadith have also called not eating on the 10th of Dhu al-Hijja until the Eid prayer a fast (sawm), which finds its expression in the sacrifice, and they have also placed this incomplete fast in the ruling of a full day’s fast: [ar]باب في صوم العشر، أي في عشر ذي الحجة، والمراد بعشر تسعة أيام كما في الباب:…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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