Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

Ubadah ibn al-Samit said: I taught some people of the Suffah to write and recite the Quran. One of them gave me a bow. I thought it was not valuable property and that I could use it in the way of Allah, but decided to ask the Messenger of Allah. He said: If you wish to wear a collar of fire, accept it.

A similar report was transmitted from Ubadah ibn al-Samit through another chain, though the first report is more complete. In this version I asked, Messenger of Allah, what do you think of it? He replied: It is a live coal around your neck or hanging from you.

Abu Said al-Khudri reported that a group of the Prophet companions travelled and camped near an Arab clan. They asked for hospitality, but the clan refused. The clan chief was stung, and every treatment they tried failed. Someone suggested asking the travellers for help. One of them said he could perform a healing recitation, but only if they paid, since the clan had refused to host them. They agreed to give him a flock of sheep. He recited the Opening of the Book over the chief and blew lightly until he recovered, as if released from a bond. They paid the agreed fee and discussed dividing it, but the man who performed the recitation said they should first consult the Messenger of Allah. They came to him the next morning and told him what happened. He said: How did you know it was a healing recitation? You did well. Set aside a share for me with you.

A similar report was transmitted from Abu Said al-Khudri from the Prophet.

Kharijah ibn al-Salt reported from his paternal uncle that he passed a clan, whose people said he had brought good from the man he had met and asked him to recite a healing prayer for one of them. They brought a mentally ill man in chains. He recited the Opening of the Quran over him for three days, morning and evening. Each time he finished, he gathered his saliva and blew lightly, and the man recovered as if freed from a bond. They gave him a payment. He told the Prophet, who said: Accept it. By my life, some people earn from false incantations, but you have earned through a true healing recitation.

Rafi ibn Khadij reported that the Messenger of Allah said: The earnings of a cupper are impure, the price of a dog is impure, and the fee of a prostitute is impure.

Ibn Muhayyisah reported from his father that he asked the Messenger of Allah for permission to take payment for cupping. The Prophet forbade it, but he kept asking until the Prophet told him to use the earnings to feed his water camel and his slave.

Ibn Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah was cupped and paid the cupper. If he had considered the earnings impure, he would not have paid him.

Anas ibn Malik reported that Abu Taybah cupped the Messenger of Allah, who ordered that he be given a sa of dates and told his family to reduce some of his dues.

Abu Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade earnings from slave women.

Tariq ibn Abd al-Rahman reported that Rafi ibn Rifaah came to a gathering of the Ansar and said: The Prophet forbade us several things today, including earnings from a slave woman, except for what she earns through work with her hands. He indicated baking, spinning, and carding wool with his fingers.

Rafi ibn Khadij reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade earnings from a slave woman unless their source was known.

Abu Masud reported that the Prophet forbade the price of a dog, the fee of a prostitute, and a payment given to a soothsayer.

Ibn Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah forbade payment for a stallion to mate with a mare.

Abu Majidah said: I cut a boy ear, or he cut mine; the narrator was uncertain. When Abu Bakr came to perform pilgrimage, we gathered before him, and he referred the matter to Umar ibn al-Khattab. Umar said the injury warranted retaliation and asked for a cupper to carry it out. When the cupper arrived, Umar said he had heard the Messenger of Allah say: I gave a boy to my maternal aunt, hoping he would bring her blessing, and told her not to entrust him to a cupper, a goldsmith, or a butcher. Abu Dawud noted another chain identifying Abu Majidah as a man of Banu Sahm who narrated from Umar.

A similar report was transmitted from Abu Majidah al-Sahmi from Umar ibn al-Khattab through another chain.

Abu Majidah transmitted a similar report from Umar ibn al-Khattab from the Prophet.

Ibn Umar reported that the Prophet said: Whoever sells a slave who owns property, the property belongs to the seller unless the buyer stipulates otherwise. Whoever sells palm trees after they have been pollinated, the fruit belongs to the seller unless the buyer stipulates otherwise.

A report through Umar from the Messenger of Allah concerns the sale of a slave, and another report through Nafi from Ibn Umar from the Prophet concerns the sale of palm trees. Abu Dawud said that al-Zuhri and Nafi differed in four reports, and this is one of them.