سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ اسْتَأْجَرَ أَجِيراً فَلَمْ يَأْمَنْ أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ فَوَضَعَ الْأَجْرَ عَلَى يَدِ رَجُلٍ فَهَلَكَ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ وَ لَمْ يَدَعْ وَفَاءً فَاسْتَهْلَكَ الْأَجْرُ فَقَالَ الْمُسْتَأْجِرُ ضَامِنٌ لِأَجْرِ الْأَجِيرِ حَتَّى يَقْضِيَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ الْأَجِيرُ دَعَاهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ فَرَضِيَ بِالرَّجُلِ فَإِنْ فَعَلَ فَحَقُّهُ حَيْثُ وَضَعَهُ وَ رَضِيَ بِهِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Yazeed Bin Si’haq, from Haroun Bin Hamza who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who employed an employee. But, one of the two does not trust his companion, so the wages were placed upon a (third) man. So that man died, and did not get the wages paid. Thus the wages were destroyed. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The employer is responsible of the wages to the employee until it is paid, except if it so happened that the employee called for it to be that, so he was pleased with the (third) man (holding it). So if he did it, so his right would be wherever he placed it and was pleased with it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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