Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Detestability of Using the Labor of a Worker before Agreeing on Wages and Delay Payment of His Wages َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َاعِيلَ عَنْ حَنَانٍ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ تَكَارَيْنَا لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َلُونَ فِي بُسْتَانٍ لَهُ وَكَانَ أَجَلُهُ٠ْ إِلَى الْعَصْرِ فَلَ٠َّا فَرَغُوا قَالَ لِ٠ُعَتِّبٍ أَعْطِهِ٠ْ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَجِفَّ عَرَقُهُ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn ‘Isma’il from Hanan from Shu’ayb who has said the following: “We once hired a people for abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), to work in his garden and they were suppose to work until the time of al-‘Al-‘Asr. When they finished, he (the Imam) said to Mu‘attib, ‘Pay them their wages before their perspiration dries up.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/388))