We rented an apartment that had no stove, and we asked the worker for coffee but did not pay him because he did not provide us with a stove!!

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My father rented an apartment during our trip, and there was no stove in the apartment's kitchen, and there was no oven in the apartment's kitchen. So my father asked the worker at this hotel to make us coffee, and he made it for us for twenty riyals, and we thought the amount was large. So we asked for another one, and he made it. He says: We asked for coffee one more time, and the worker made it for us, but we did not give him twenty riyals again, even though he had asked for it, because he did not provide us with a stove in this room. He says: Is it permissible for us not to pay him because he deceived us and housed us in a room without an oven?

Answer:
The stove is not the worker's responsibility, my brother. The stove is the responsibility of the owner, the owner of the building and the owner of the apartment; it is the lessor who is responsible for this. As for the worker, he is a poor man; he is a bedmaker, he cleans, he opens and closes; that is his job. The worker has no involvement in this. Hold the lessor, the owner, accountable, and give the worker his right, which is what he asked for in exchange for the work he did for you, and it is not part of your work. Yes.