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A Manual of Hadith: Chapter XII: 'Īd Service

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2. "When they fall down eat of them and feed the poor man who is contented and the beggar" (22:36). The word 'Īd (from 'āda, he or it returned) is literally "the time of return of joy and of grief" (LL), and hence it comes to indicate a festival or a periodical festival, The word 'Īd itself occurs in the Holy Qur'ān only in connection with the prayer of Jesus for bread for his disciples in the sense of an ever-recurring happiness (5:114).