Muwatta' Malik 41-27

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazim that Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman said, "A'isha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ went out to Makka and she had two girl mawlas of hers and a slave belonging to the sons of Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr as-Siddiq. She sent a figured cloak with the two mawlas which was sewn up in a piece of green cloth." Amra continued, "The slave took it and unstitched it and took out the cloak. In its place, he put some felt or skin and sewed it up again. When the mawla girls came to Madina, they gave it to his people. When they opened it, they found felt in it and did not find the cloak. They spoke to the two women and they spoke to A'isha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ or they wrote to her and suspected the slave. The slave was asked about it and confessed. A'isha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ gave the order and his hand was cut off. A'isha said, 'A thief's hand is cut off for a quarter of a dinar and upwards.' " Malik said, "The limit I prefer above which cutting off the hand is obliged is three dirhams, whether the exchange is high or low. That is because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cut off the hand of a thief for a shield whose value was three dirhams, and Uthman ibn Affan cut off the hand of a thief for a citron which was estimated at three dirhams. This is what I prefer of what I have heard on the matter."

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4935Musnad Ahmad 25304Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 18968al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7401

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   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
   في حكم العنعنة
2. 2
   ʿAmrah bt. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārīyah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Ḥassān al-Ziyādī said: it is said she died in the year ninety-eight. Abū ʿUbayd Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: she died in 106 AH; Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim said: she died in 103 AH.
   عَمْرَةَ بِنْتِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ؛ثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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