Wage for cutting paddy paid from the cut paddy

Question

Question: The servant who is engaged in the month of Aghan (a month of the Indian calendar, November–December) to cut paddy — his wage too is paid from the paddy he has cut. Is this form permissible or not? If it is impermissible, is there any permissible form by means of a hila (legal way out) or not?

Answer

If the agreement is made thus: “For cutting one’s own paddy, to me (?) we will give so much out of the paddy cut by you today,” then it is an ijara fasida (invalid hire). If paddy in general is spoken of as the wage, and there is no restriction that we will give from what you cut, or it is agreed, for example, that it will be from the paddy that was cut by him yesterday, the…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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