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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2234

✧ The Prescribed Punishment for Theft

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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ - هُوَ الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ - ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِ، قَالَ: قَالَ: أَبُو مَطَرٍ:

رَأَيْتُ عَلِيًّا ؓ أُتِيَ بِرَجُلٍ، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّهُ قَدْ سَرَقَ جَمَلًا، فَقَالَ: مَا أُرَاكَ سَرَقْتَ. قَالَ: بَلَى. قَالَ: فَلَعَلَّهُ شُبِّهَ لَكَ ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى قَدْ سَرَقْتُ. قَالَ: اذْهَبْ بِهِ يَا قَنْبَرُ فَشُدَّ أُصْبُعَهُ وَأَوْقِدِ النَّارَ، وَادْعُ الْجَزَّارَ لِيَقْطَعَ، ثُمَّ انْتَظِرْ حَتَّى أَجِيءَ، فَلَمَّا جَاءَ قَالَ لَهُ: أَسَرَقْتَ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، فَتَرَكَهُ. قَالُوا: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ، لِمَ تَرَكْتَهُ وَقَدْ أَقَرَّ لَكَ ؟ قَالَ: آخُذُهُ بِقَوْلِهِ وَأَتْرُكُهُ بِقَوْلِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ: أُتِيَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِرَجُلٍ قَدْ سَرَقَ، فَأَمَرَ بِقَطْعِ يَدِهِ ثُمَّ بَكَى، فَقُلْنَا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، لِمَ تَبْكِي ؟ فَقَالَ ﷺ: وَكَيْفَ لَا أَبْكِي وَأُمَّتِي تُقْطَعُ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ. قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَفَلَا عَفَوْتَ عَنْهُ ؟ قَالَ ﷺ: ذَاكَ سُلْطَانُ سُوءٍ الَّذِي يَعْفُو عَنِ الْحُدُودِ، وَلَكِنْ تَعَافَوُا الْحُدُودَ بَيْنَكُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. ʿUbaydullāh
  3. al-Qawārīrī
  4. ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar
  5. Abū al-Muḥayyāh
  6. Abū Maṭar

✧ I saw Ali ؓ when a man was brought to him. They said: He has stolen a camel. He said: I do not think you stole. He said: Yes. He said: Perhaps it was made to seem so to you? He said: Yes, I did steal. He said: Take him, Qanbar, tie his finger, light the fire, and call the butcher to cut. Then wait until I come. When he came, he said to him: Did you steal? He said: No, so he left him. They said: O Commander of the Faithful, why did you leave him when he had confessed to you? He said: I take him by his word and leave him by his word. Then Ali ؓ said: The Messenger of God ﷺ was brought a man who had stolen. He ordered his hand to be cut off, then he wept. We said: O Messenger of God, why do you weep? He ﷺ said: How can I not weep when my community has its hands cut off before your eyes? They said: O Messenger of God, could you not have pardoned him? He ﷺ said: That is an evil ruler who pardons the prescribed punishments. But pardon one another for the prescribed punishments among yourselves.

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4880Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33471Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 13885al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7343al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7360Musnad Abi Ya'la 5404

Narrators

  1. ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib
    One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
    صريح في السماع
  2. Abū Maṭar
    أَبُو مَطَرٍ
    قال
  3. Yaḥyá b. Yaʿlá al-Taymī
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 180 AH
    أَبُو الْمُحَيَّاةِثقة
    حدثنا
  4. ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar
    trustworthy (thiqah). It was said: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd was not pleased with himd. 207 AH, or 208 AH, or 209 AH
    عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة . قيل : كان يحيى بن سعيد لا يرضاه
    حدثنا
  5. ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 233 AH or 234 AH or 235 AH
    عُبَيْدُ اللهِ - هُوَ الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ -ثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَبُو يَعْلَى

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