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Sahih al-Bukhari 6792

“Cut off the hand of the thief, male or female…”

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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَتْنِي عَائِشَةُ

أَنَّ يَدَ السَّارِقِ لَمْ تُقْطَعْ عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ إِلاَّ فِي ثَمَنِ مِجَنٍّ حَجَفَةٍ أَوْ تُرْسٍ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah
  2. ʿAbdah
  3. Hishām
  4. his father
  5. ʿĀʾishah

The hand of a thief was not cut off during the lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ except for stealing something equal to a shield in value. A similar hadith is narrated from ʿAisha through another chain.

Notes

  • حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ مِثْلَهُ

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Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    أخبرتني
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
    هِشَامٍثقة فقيه ربما دلس
    عن
  4. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 186 AH or 187 AH or 188 AH
    عَبْدَةُثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a renowned memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), though he had some errors (awhām). It is also said: he did not memorize the Qurʾānd. 239 AH
    عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ شهير ، وله أوهام . وقيل : كان لا يحفظ القرآن
    حدثنا
  6. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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