The definition of hiring as a contract stipulating the recompense for the fruits of labour, and stipulating that the benefit is something the employer can receive fully, leads us to understand that hiring is allowed for every benefit which the employer can receive from the employee fully. This could be the benefit of a person like a servant or the benefit of the work of a craftsman, unless a divine evidence has been mentioned that prohibits such benefit. This is because things are originally allowed and benefit is one of those things. It is untrue to say here that this is a contract or a transaction which should be originally restricted by Shar’a rather than allowed. This is untrue because the contract is the hiring itself, not the benefit. The benefit is the matter over which the transaction is concluded and over which the contract is applied, and thus the benefit is not a transaction or a contract. Therefore, hiring is allowed over all benefits when there is no prohibition mentioned regarding them, whether there is a text allowing them or not. So the person is allowed to hire a man or a woman to type for Him on a typewriter, certain pages for a certain wage because this is a hiring over a benefit for which no prohibition is mentioned. So hiring over it is allowed, even though there was no mention of a text to allow it. It is also allowed to hire a person who measures and weighs for a certain work in a certain time-period. Abu Dawud narrated in the hadith of Suwaid ibn Qais, who said: “The Prophet (pbuh) (pbuh) came to us (in the market) and He bartered with us and we sold to him. And there was a man who was weighing for a wage. The Prophet (pbuh) (pbuh) then said: ‘Measure and out-weigh (the scale of balance).’” So this hiring is allowed and there is a text that allows it. But as for the worships, whether they are Fard or Nafilah, they have to be examined. If their benefit does not extend to other than the person who performs them, such as performing the pilgrimage for himself, and paying his own Zakat, then He is not allowed to receive a wage for it because the wage is a recompense for a benefit and there is no benefit in these matters for other than himself. Accordingly, hiring Him on these matters is not allowed, because they are Fard upon him. But if the benefit of the worship goes beyond the one who performs it, then hiring over it is allowed. Examples include making Adhan for others and leading the others in prayer or hiring a person to perform Hajj on behalf of a dead person or a person to pay his Zakat on his behalf. All these things are allowed because it is a contract over a benefit for recompense. The wage in these matters is recompense for benefit, which was accomplished by another person, so the hiring was allowed. In regard of what At-Tirmidhi narrated from Uthman ibn Aby al A’as, He said: “The last thing the Prophet (pbuh) commanded me to do is to use a Muadhin (caller to prayer) who does not take a wage for performing his adhan.” In this Hadith the Prophet (pbuh) forbade using the Muadhin who takes a wage as a Muadhin for him, but He did not forbid the Muadhins from taking a wage. This indicates that there are Muadhins who take a wage and others who do not take a wage. So the Prophet (pbuh) (pbuh) forbade Him from taking a Muadhin from those who take a wage. This prohibition indicates alienation from taking a wage over Adhan, which implies the dislike of taking a wage over Adhan. However, this does not indicate the prohibition of taking a wage over Adhan; rather it indicates that it is allowed but with dislike.