Categories of hired workers

Al-Mawsu'a al-fiqhiyya divides hired workers into two broad categories: the exclusive hired worker (ajir khass), who places himself at the service of a single employer, or of a specific group, for a fixed period, and the shared hired worker (ajir mushtarak), who works for the public at large against the result of his work: fuller, dyer, tailor, porter, physician. The sixteen sheets below examine, school by school, the position of trust or liability of each, the validity of stipulating liability in the contract, the prayer times excluded from the hiring period, working for others during the engagement, the withholding of the entrusted object until the fee is paid, and the liability of the cupper, the physician, the circumciser and the veterinarian. The positions of the four schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali) are reported faithfully, with the classical references of the cited works.

Parts of this section

• The exclusive hired worker is a trustee
• Stipulating liability on the shared hired worker