What can be leased and its wage

This third installment on the pillars of ijara first examines the hire of natural resources: the water of rivers, canals and wells, then pastures (kala'). It then turns to the hire of buildings for worship or for what is unlawful (a mosque, a church, a tavern, the transport of wine), and to three conditions of the hired benefit: that it be lawful, that it be owned property, and that it not be an act of worship. The jurists also discuss the wage for teaching the Quran and fiqh, paid recitation for the deceased, and the fate of the reward of recitation.

Parts of this section

• Third question: the hire of a river, a canal and a well for its water
• Sixth condition: the benefit must be owned property (the case of the houses of Mecca)