Eid al-Adha

" festival of sacrifice "), also called Feast of the Sacrifice , the
Major Festival , [ 1 ] the Greater Eid and Bakrid , [ 2 ] is an
important 3-day religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to
honour thewillingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to sacrifice
his young first-born son Ismā'īl (Ishmael) a as an act of submission
to God's command and his son's acceptance to being sacrificed, before
God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead. [ 3
]
Eid al-Adha is the latter ofthe two Eid holidays , the former being
Eid al-Fitr . The basis for the Eid al-Adha comes from the 196th verse
of the 2nd sura of the Quran . [ 4 ] Theword "Eid" appears once in the
5th sura of the Quran, with the meaning"solemn festival". [ 5 ] The 3
days and 2 nights of Eidal-Adha are celebrated annually on the 10th,
11th and 12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah , the twelfth andlast month of the
lunar Islamic calendar . [ 6 ] In the international Gregorian calendar
, the dates vary from year to year, drifting approximately 11 days
earlier each year.
Like Eid al-Fitr , Eid al-Adha begins with a Sunnah prayer of two
rakats followed by a sermon ( khuṭbah ). Eid al-Adha celebrations
startafter the descent of the Hajj from Mount Arafat , a hill east of
Mecca . Ritual observance of the holiday lasts until sunset of the
12th day of Dhu al-Hijjah. [ 7 ] Eid sacrifice may take place until
sunset on the 13th day. [ 8 ] The days of Eid have been singled out in
the Hadith as "days of remembrance". The days of Tashriq are from the
Fajr of the 9th of Dhul Hijjah up to the Asr of the 13th of Dhul
Hijjah (5 days and 4 nights). This equals 23 prayers: 5 on the
9th-12th, which equal 20