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Ruling of Eid Salah in a Musallah inside the City – Shaikh Al-Albani

Question: Is it a must that the Musallah of Eid be outside the city? And what is the ruling of establishing it in a Soccer arena/ground?

Answer: The origin of the musallah of eid is that it is outside the city, this is the Sunnah. So if that is easy for you then you have done well, If it is not easy for you, then establishing the salah in a field from the fields where this field accommodates all the praying people who usually split up in the Masaajid, it is more deserving than their splitting up in the Masaajid.

The answer is clear?

Questioner: Yes.

Shaikh: The origin is to pray the Eid prayer outside the city, outside the boundaries of the city.If that is easy for you, If that is not easy for you, they pray in field from the spacious fields which accommodates all the praying people whose custom is that they split up for the congregational prayer and Friday prayer in their Masaajid. If there is a field, after the field outside the city, that is inside the city accommodating all of them, then it is permissible to pray in this place.

As for what is related to the Soccer arena/ground, so if there is not in this arena apparent evil, like what we witnessed sometimes displayed in some internationalarenas/grounds in terms of placing signs and pictures and what resemblances that. If the pictures are not established and the arena/ground is free from oppositions of the shariah, then it is allowed to take it as a musallah, otherwise no.

[Silsilatul Huda-wa-Nur no. 57]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

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