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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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