Receiving or taking or having salary by Imam for prayers or adhan in Islam.
Support IslamQA Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Call for prayer Related topic Ruling on receiving a salary for giving the adhaan 18-12-2010 Question 146964 I am a man who works as a muezzin in return for a salary from the awqaaf. It was said to me: If you receive a salary then you will not get the reward. And I do not want that; rather I want the reward. Please note that I only take the salary because I do not have any other income, but I prefer the reward of the Hereafter to the reward of this world. I hope that you will clarify this, may Allah bless you. Answer Praise be to Allah. It is proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to ‘Uthmaan ibn Abi’l-‘Aas, when he asked him to be the imam of his people: “You are their imam; pay attention to the weak among them, and appoint a muezzin who does not take any payment for his adhaan.” This indicates that the muezzin who volunteer