Question: What is the ruling on [working] in the field of real estate brokerage and taking a wage for that?
Answer: “Brokerage for real estate or other than it is permissible. There is no harm in it”
Question: How about for the one who will receive a wage from a number of parties?
Answer: “In accordance to the agreement. If the payment is from the buyer or from this one or both, it is in accordance to what they agreed upon”.
[Sharh Ibn Majah no. 74]
Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
