Muwatta' Malik 41-32

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that a man from Yemen who had his hand and foot cut off came and went before Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and complained to him that the governor of the Yemen had wronged him, and the man used to pray part of the night. Abu Bakr said, "By your father, your night is not the night of a thief." Then they missed a necklace of Asma bint Umays, the wife of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. The man came to go around with them looking for it. He said, "O Allah! You are responsible for the one who invaded the people of this good house by night!" They found the jewelry with a goldsmith. He claimed that the maimed man had brought it to him. The maimed man confessed or it was testified against him. Abu Bakr as-Siddiq ordered that his left hand be cut off. Abu Bakr said, "By Allah! His dua against himself is more serious, as far as I am concerned, than his theft." Yahya said that Malik said, "What is done among us about the person who steals several times and is then called to reckoning, is that only his hand is cut off for all he stole when the hadd has not been applied againsthim. If the hadd has been applied against him before that, and he steals what obliges cutting off, then the next limb is cut off."

Notes

• قَالَ يَحْيَى قَالَ مَالِكٌ الأَمْرُ عِنْدَنَا فِي الَّذِي يَسْرِقُ مِرَارًا ثُمَّ يُسْتَعْدَى عَلَيْهِ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ إِلاَّ أَنْ تُقْطَعَ يَدُهُ لِجَمِيعِ مَنْ سَرَقَ مِنْهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ فَإِنْ كَانَ قَدْ أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ سَرَقَ مَا يَجِبُ فِيهِ الْقَطْعُ قُطِعَ أَيْضًا

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  عبد الرحمن بن القاسم زاد وأثبت

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1480
• al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī

  القاسم بن محمد بن أبي بكر الصديق لا أراه أدرك زمان جده

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1480
• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  وفي سنده انقطاع

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1480

Other narrations of this report

al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17353al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 17356Sunan al-Daraqutni 3389Sunan al-Daraqutni 3390Sunan al-Daraqutni 3391

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
   أن
2. 2
   al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AH, or 108 AH, or 109 AH, 112 AH, or 117 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: 126 AH. Khalīfah said likewise. He once said: died in the year 131 AH. Al-Fallās said likewise, and the first is more correct.
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِثقة جليل
   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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