Book of Lease (Ijārah)

Question: Is it permissible for me to hire a maidservant instead of a male servant, since I fear for my family and children from having a male servant in the house, and I am in need of this?

Question: An employee in a pharmacy receives a gift from a company’s distributor who says, “This is a gift for you from the company,” with the aim of encouraging the employee to give care to selling its products. Is this...

Question: Is it permissible to pay someone who makes minor mistakes in recitation to read a complete khatmah (full recitation of the Qur’an)?

Question: A man works for a merchant. The merchant deems it permissible to sell an item for more than its current day’s cash price due to deferment of payment (i.e., on credit), while the worker believes that to be prohibited....

Question: A disabled woman owns a plot of land, and she has a granddaughter who is compassionate toward her—serving her needs, cleanliness, and provisions, hardly ever leaving her. The woman summoned a scribe and witnesses and testified before them that...

Question: If a hireling is engaged to perform an ifrād Hajj [a stand-alone Hajj] to be followed by an ʿumrah after the Days of Tashrīq, for an agreed wage—does this hiring contract remain valid even if the end of the...

Question: A man leased a new car for three thousand Saudi riyals per month. The car’s price is ninety thousand Saudi riyals. The contract states that if the lessee pays three thousand each month until the total of rents paid...

Question: A man has a grocery or a pharmacy containing inventory worth one million riyals. He and another man agree that the latter will operate that shop and pay him twenty-five thousand riyals per month from the profits. When the...

Question: A man—described as a usurer person—who trades in narcotics asked me to carry money from someone to him, offering me a wage. What is the ruling?

Question: A man wishes to lease land to someone who will use it as a market, and he fears that sins may occur in that market. Is it permissible for him to lease it nonetheless? knowing he is resolved to...