What is the ruling on distributing dates to the worshippers in the Eid prayer area before the prayer?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on distributing dates to the worshippers in the Eid prayer area before the prayer?

Answer:
There is no basis for this. This is an overreach, and perhaps one believes it is a recommended practice (sunnah) or that it is obligatory. Then this thing becomes widespread, and the mosques become places of eating. This is something the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions did not do. We fear that these innovations and independent legal reasoning (ijtihad) that some of the young people do will develop and the religion will change over the long term. Leave these matters that no one from the Salaf (the earliest generations) of the Muslims preceded you in. Leave them. Do not innovate anything that no one from the Salaf preceded you in. Yes.