With the Hadith
Give the worker his wage
We greet you all, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith" and we begin with the best greeting, peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you.
Give the worker his wage
Ibn Majah narrated in his Sunan, he said:
Al-Abbas bin Al-Walid Al-Dimashqi told us, Wahb bin Saeed bin Atiyyah Al-Salami told us, Abdul Rahman bin Zaid bin Aslam told us, from his father, from Abdullah bin Omar, he said:
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Give the worker his wage before his sweat dries."
It came in Al-Sindi's footnote on Ibn Majah:
His saying (give the worker): i.e. it is necessary to rush to give his right after finishing the need
His saying (before his sweat dries): i.e. the result of engaging in the need
Dear listeners:
This hadith indicates the importance of taking the initiative in giving the worker his wage as soon as he finishes his work and not procrastinating in giving the wage, as many business owners do in our current time... How often does the employer postpone paying the wage to the workers or employees he has... with various pretexts, each pretext is weaker than its sister... And why don't they do it when their governments practice delaying paying the salaries of their employees for many months... even though the employees are in dire need of those salaries... The worker or employee who has no income other than his wage from his work is forced to borrow from this and that until he can rescue his wage with great difficulty, even though he performed his task and performed his job immediately and without delay... and the Sharia orders us to fulfill the trusts we have and give rights to their owners... So what has happened to us to become violators of rights... eaters of the efforts of others unjustly and aggressively... Does the one who postpones paying the wage of his worker to use it and invest it in developing his money not know that he is eating forbidden money? Because once the worker finishes his work, his wage becomes his property, and the employer has no right to it... If he delays paying the worker's wage and uses it to develop his money and spend his interests, then he is eating forbidden money that he has no right to?
May God have mercy on Ali Ibn Abi Talib when he said to the Caliph Omar Al-Farooq: You were chaste and they were chaste, and if you had grazed, they would have grazed... And this is our situation today... Our rulers grazed and violated sanctities, so every oppressor grazed with them for himself and brought himself to ruin
It is mentioned in the hadith that tells the story of the three who were locked in the cave by a rock that they could not push away, that they sought refuge in God with their good deeds, and one of the third of them said:
"O God, I hired workers and gave them their wages except for one man who left what was his and went away, so I increased his wage until his wealth became abundant. Then he came to me after a while and said: O servant of God, give me my wage. I said to him: All that you see is from your wage of camels, cows, sheep, and slaves. He said: O servant of God, do not mock me. I said: I am not mocking you. So he took it all and drove it away and did not leave anything of it. O God, if I did that seeking Your face, then relieve us of what we are in. So the rock was moved and they came out walking."
Who among us has someone like this trustworthy man who knew the right of the worker, so he protected it and invested it for the benefit of its owner... until his story was mentioned by our noble Prophet, teaching us and guiding us... and the Messenger is not among us today, but he left us what takes his place in teaching us and guiding us. He, peace and blessings be upon him, said: (I have left among you that which if you hold fast to it, you will never go astray after me: the Book of God and my Sunnah). The ignorant have wasted the Book of God and the Sunnah of His Prophet, as they have removed them from power and authority... so the rights of workers and employees were lost, just as the rights of the entire nation were lost, and the greedy and the oppressors violated the sanctities of God in the absence of the trustworthy guardian... so let us hasten to restore our guardian and protector so that rights return to their owners and justice and light spread again... and that is not far from God.
Dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you.
