Is It Permissible to Hold Multiple Eid Prayers in the Same Mosque/Community?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

What is the ruling of holding Eid prayer multiple times, due to consideration of the global and local sighting positions, in the case that they don’t fall on the same day?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.

Both the local and global sighting, as well as the calculation method, have been supported by various scholars with their own proofs.

That said, the general advice is to follow whatever one’s community does. If one’s community accommodates both/all of the above opinions.

Multiple Eid Prayers

Holding multiple Eid sermons/prayers in the same mosque/community is permissible. The condition is that the same person cannot lead both prayers.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.