A man can be hired for a woman and a woman can be hired for...

A man can be hired for a woman and a woman can be hired for a man and in the matter of offering prayers loudly or in low voice the hired person should act according to his own obligation. 1552. Maintenance of order is not obligatory in the lapsed prayers of a dead person except in the case of 'ada prayers in which the order is to be maintained e.g. midday and afternoon prayers or dusk and night prayers of one day, as has been mentioned earlier.

**1553.**If it is settled with the hired person that he will accomplish the act in a special manner he should accomplish it in that manner. And if nothing is settled with him he should act in that matter according to his own legal obligation.

And the recommended precaution is that out of his own legal obligation and that of the dead person, he should act according to that which is nearer to precaution for example if the legal obligation of the dead person was to say tasbihat arba'ah (recital of the third or fourth unit while standing) thrice and his own legal obligation is to say them once he should say them thrice. 1554.

If it is not settled with the hired person with how many recommended acts he will offer the prayers, he should perform those recommended acts of the prayers, which are usual. 1555. If a person engages a number of persons for offering the lapsed prayers of a dead person it is necessary on the basis of contents of Article 1552 that he should fix a time for each one of them. 1556.

ii, for example, a person is hired to offer the prayers of a dead person during the period of one year but he dies before the year comes to an end another person should be hired to offer, the prayers, which, it is known, the first person has not offered. And if it is probable that he has not offered some prayers even then on the basis of obligatory precaution, another person should be hired. 1557.

If a person, who is hired for offering the prayers of a dead person, dies before offering all the prayers and had taken wages for all the prayers, and if it was settled that he should offer all the prayers himself, and if he was able to do the needful, the contract is in order, and the hirer can take the proportionate amount of the wages for the remaining prayers, or he can cancel the contract and take the balance amount after deducting the proportionate amount for the prayers, which have been offered.