Hilāl is the newly sighted crescent marking a lunar month. Al-fiṭr here refers to the end of Ramadan fasting.
Thus hilāl al-fiṭr is the Shawwal crescent, not the Ramadan crescent. This matters because the two sightings have distinct testimony standards in the text.
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Kitab al-Sawm: Eid Crescent Sighting and Testimony
Hilāl is the newly sighted crescent marking a lunar month. Al-fiṭr here refers to the end of Ramadan fasting.
Thus hilāl al-fiṭr is the Shawwal crescent, not the Ramadan crescent. This matters because the two sightings have distinct testimony standards in the text.