It is permitted to pay the wage immediately, and it is permitted to delay it. If the two contractors stipulated paying the wage immediately or delaying it, the condition is observed. He (saw) said:

Everything the two contractors stipulated in paying the wage immediately or delaying it is considered and observed. However, if the two contractors do not stipulate anything regarding paying the wage immediately or delaying it, it is looked into. If the wage is periodic at a specific time like monthly or yearly, it is obliged to pay it at the end of that time. If it is monthly it is paid at the end of the month, and if it is yearly then at the end of the year. However if the hiring is upon work liked sewing clothes, digging a well, repairing a car or something similar, it must be paid at the end of the work. It is allowed to reiterate the wage in two forms or three in the work, the worker, distance, time and place; it is obliged to pay the wage according to the obliged forms that actually appear. For example if he says to the tailor, ‘If you sew in a minute, then for you is so much’ or “Sew thickly, then for you is so much’, he is paid for whichever of the two forms he performs for him.