Hiring/Renting: Paying the Fee When a Hired Person is Ready to Work

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Ayatullah Sistani

Ruling 2207

If a person is hired to perform a task on a particular day and he shows up to perform that task on that day, the person who hired him must pay him even if he chooses not to give that task to him. For example, if a person hires a tailor to stitch some clothes on a particular day and on that day the tailor is ready to perform that task, he must pay him his fee even if he does not give him the cloth from which to tailor the clothes, or the tailor remains without work that day, or he does his own or somebody else’s work.

-Ayatullah Sistani, Practical Laws of Islam, Hiring/Renting (Ijarah)