The Hired Person Can Be the Opposite Gender
Issue No. 1221- A man can be hired on behalf of a woman, and a woman can be hired on behalf of a man, and in the matter of offering prayer loudly or whisperingly, the hired person should act according to his/her own obligation, not the dead person’s. Moreover, observing order is not necessary for the qaḍā prayer of a dead person irrespective of whether the hired person knows the order of the missed prayer or not, except for ẓuhr and ‘aṣr prayer or maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayer of the same day.
