Question
Is it permissible to share gifts and to give eidi on the day of eid? Or is it an innovation?
Answer
The custom of exchanging gifts on Eid Days has no sanction in the Sunnah. It is bid'ah to be shunned.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 27 No 06
- PDF page
- 9
Appears under THE 15th SHA’BAAN (approximate).