all of which is permissible, and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) hired [Abu Tayyibah, and he performed cupping on him] (36). Ahmad also said, in a narration from Ibn Mansur, regarding a man who hires (37) himself out to supervise a Christian's vineyard (38): That is disliked, because the origin of that leads back to wine.
Section: It is disliked for a man to hire himself out to clean privies, and it is disliked for him to consume the wages from it; because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The earnings of a cupper are impure (khabith)" (39). He forbade the free man from consuming them, so this is even more deserving of prohibition. It has been narrated from Ibn Abbas that a man performed Hajj, then came to him and said (40): "I am a man who cleans, so what is your opinion regarding my earnings?" He asked, "What kind of things do you clean?" The man replied, "Excrement." He said, "And from it you performed Hajj, and from it you got married?" The man replied, "Yes." He said, "You are impure, your Hajj is impure, and what you used for marriage is impure," or words to that effect. Said ibn Mansur mentioned it in his "Sunan" with its meaning, and because
(36) In M: "Abu Zabyah to cup him." Abu Tayyibah is a mawla (freedman) of the Ansar. See his biography in: Al-Isabah 7/233. The hadith was recorded by Al-Bukhari, in: The Chapter on the Mention of the Cupper, and the Chapter on whoever conducts the affairs of the Ansar according to what they recognize among themselves regarding sales, leasing, measurement, and weighing, and their traditions based on their intentions and well-known schools of thought, from the Book of Sales; and the Chapter on the slave's tax and fulfilling the taxes of slave women, from the Book of Leasing; and the Chapter on cupping as a remedy, from the Book of Medicine. Sahih Al-Bukhari 3/82, 103, 122, 7/161. And Muslim, in: The Chapter on the Lawfulness of Cupping Wages, from the Book of Musaqat (Sharecropping). Sahih Muslim 3/1204. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud, in: The Chapter on the Earnings of the Cupper, from the Book of Leasing. Sunan Abi Dawud 2/239. And Al-Tirmidhi, in: The Chapter on what has been reported regarding the concession for the earnings of the cupper, from the Book of Sales. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 5/278. And Al-Darimi, in: The Chapter on the concession for the earnings of the cupper, from the Book of Sales. Sunan al-Darimi 2/272. And Imam Malik, in: The Chapter on what has been reported regarding cupping and the cupper's wages. Al-Muwatta 2/974. And Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 3/100, 174, 182, 353. (37) In the original: "yu'ajir" (he hires). (38) In the original: "Al-Nasara" (the Christians). (39) Its verification has preceded on page 118. (40) Omitted from: B, M.
