Hadith record

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Taymi, from Ali Bin Asbat, from Dawood Bin Abu Yazeed, from Ubeyda Bin Basheer Al Khash’amy who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the cutter of the way (bandit), and I said, ‘The people are saying that the Imam asws has a choice in it which thing he asws so desires to do’. He asws said: ‘It is not which thing he asws so desires to do, but he asws would deal with them in accordance with their crimes. The one who cuts off the way, so he kills and seizes the property, his hand and his leg would be cut, and he would be cruficified. And the one who cuts off the way, so he kills and does not seize the property, he would be killed. And the one who cuts off the way, and seizes the property, and does not kill, his hand and his leg would be cut (from opposite sides). And the one who cuts off the way and does not seize the property, and does not kill, he would be exiled from the land’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.