Dought & clear, - The time for ghusl on Eid

When should one do ghusl for Eid? Because if I do ghusl after Fajr,
the time will be very limited, as the place where we pray the Eid
prayer is far away from my house.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
Doing ghusl on Eid is mustahabb.
It was narrated that the Prophet(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) did ghusl on the day of Eid.
It was also narrated that some of the Sahaabah did ghusl on the day of
Eid, such as 'Ali ibn Abi Taalib, Salamah ibn al-Akwa' and Ibn 'Umar
(may Allaah be pleased with them).
Al-Nawawi said inal-Majmoo':
All the isnaads (of these reports) are weak and false except the
report of Ibn 'Umar. The evidence which may be taken as proof that it
is mustahabb is the report of Ibn 'Umar, and analogy with Jumu'ah.
Ibn al-Qayyim said:
There are two weak (da'eef) ahaadeeth concerning this matter, but it
was proven from Ibn 'Umar, who was verykeen to follow the Sunnah, that
he used to do ghusl for Eid before going out.
Secondly:
With regard to the time when one should do ghusl for Eid:
It is better to do that after Fajr prayer, but if one does it before
Fajr that is sufficient, because of the shortnessof time available
after Fajr, because the people need to go to offer the Eid prayer and
the prayer place may be far away.
It says inal-Muntaqa Sharh Muwatta' al-Imaam Maalik:
It is mustahabb to do ghusl just before going out to the prayer-place.
Ibn Habeeb said that the best time to do ghusl for Eid is after
praying Fajr. Maalik said inal-Mukhtasarthat if one does ghusl for Eid
beforeFajr that is acceptable.
InSharh Mukhtasar(2/102), Khaleel said thatthe time for ghusl for
Eidis during the last one-sixth of the night.
Ibn Qudaamah said inal-Mughni:
The time for ghusl (for Eid) is after the dawn comes, according to the
apparent meaning of al-Khiraqi's words. Al-Qaadi and al-Aamidi said:
Ghusl before Fajr does not fulfil the Sunnah of doing ghusl, because
the ghusl for a prayer should be done on that day and doing it before
dawn does not meet that condition, as is the case with ghusl
forJumu'ah. Ibn 'Aqeel said: What is mentioned in the texts from Ahmad
is (that it may be done) before Fajr and after, because the time for
Eid is more limited than the time for Jumu'ah, so if it is limited to
the time after Fajr one may not be able to do it. And because the
purpose behind it is to cleanse oneself, which may be achieved by
doing ghusl at night because it is close to the time of prayer. But it
is better to do it after Fajr, so as to avoid an area of scholarly
dispute and to be more clean, because that is closer to the time of
prayer.
Al-Nawawi said inal-Majmoo':
Concerning the time when this ghusl is valid, there are two well-known
opinions. The view that it should be after dawn breaks was stated
inal-Ummand the more correct view according to scholarly consensus is
that it is permissible to do it both after Fajr and before.
Al-Qaadi Abu al-Tayyib said in his bookal-Mujarrad, al-Shaafa'i stated
inal-Buwaytithat ghusl for Eid is valid before dawn breaks.
Al-Nawawi said: If we say that according to themore correct view it is
valid before dawn, then the most sound and most well-known view isthat
it is valid after half the night has passed, butit is not valid before
then. The second view is that it is valid at any time of the night.
This was the view of al-Ghazaali, and was the view favoured by Ibn
al-Sabbaagh and others. The third view is that it is only valid just
before Fajr. This was the view of al-Baghawi.
Based on this, there is nothing wrong with doing ghusl for Eid before
Fajr prayer if thatwill make it easier to go out to the Eid prayer.
And Allaah knows best.