Abu Umamah said: A man came to the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: Messenger of Allah! I have committed a crime which involves prescribed punishment so inflict it on me. He said: Have you not performed ablution when you came? He said: Yes, He said: Have you not prayed with us when we prayed ? He said: Yes. He then said: Go off, for Allah, the Exalted, forgave you.

Azhar ibn Abdullah al-Harari said: Some goods of the people of Kila' were stolen. They accused some men of the weavers (of theft). They came to an-Numan ibn Bashir, the companion of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . He confined them for some days and then set them free. They came to an-Numan and said: You have set them free without beating and investigation. An-Numan said: What do you want? You want me to beat them. If your goods are found with them, then it is all right; otherwise, I shall take (retaliation) from your back as I have taken from their backs. They asked: Is this your decision? He said: This is the decision of Allah and His Messenger صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . Abu Dawud said: By this statement he frightened them ; that is, beating is not necessary except after acknowledgement.

Aishah said: The prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to cut off a thief’s hand for a quarter of a dinar and upwards.

Aishah reported the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: A thief’s hand should be cut off for a quarter of a dinar and upwards. Ahmed bin Salih said: The amputation (of a thief’s hand) is for a quarter of a dinar and upwards.

Ibn Umar’ said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم had thief’s hand cut off for a shield worth three dirhams.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم had a man's hand cut off who had stolen from the place reserved for women a shield whose price was three dirhams.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم had a man's hand cut off for (stealing) a shield whose price was a dinar or ten dirhams. Abu Dawud said: Muhammad bin Salamah and Saadan bin Yahya have transmitted it from Ibn Ishaq through his chain of narrators.

Narrated Rafi ibn Khadij: Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hibban said: A slave stole a plant of a palm-tree from the orchard of a man and planted it in the orchard of his master. The owner of the plant went out in search of the plant and he found it. He solicited help against the slave from Marwan ibn al-Hakam who was the Governor of Madina at that time. Marwan confined the slave and intended to cut off his hand. The slave's master went to Rafi ibn Khadij and asked him about it. He told him that he had heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit or the pith of the palm-tree. The man then said: Marwan has seized my slave and wants to cut off his hand. I wish you to go with me to him and tell him that which you have heard from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . So Rafi ibn Khadij went with him and came to Marwan ibn al-Hakam. Rafi said to him: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: The hand is not to be cut off for taking fruit or the pith of the palm-tree. So Marwan gave orders to release the slave and then he was released. Abu Dawud said: Kathar means pith of the palm-tree.

This tradition has also been transmitted by Muhammad bin Yahya bin Hibban through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: Marwan gave him some lashes and let him go.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was asked about fruit which was bung up and said: If a needy person takes some with his mouth and does not take a supply away in his garment, there is nothing on him, but he who carries any of it is to be fined twice the value and punished, and he who steals any of it after it has been put in the place where dates are dried to have his hand cut off if their value reaches the value of a shield. If he steals a thing less in value than it, he is to be find twice the value and punished. Abu Dawud said: Jarin means the place where dates are dried.