Hadith record

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad, from Al Halby, (The narrator) says, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the man who seized the thief, should he raise it (the matter to the Imam asws ) or should he leave him?’ So he asws said: ‘Sufyan Bin Amayya was lying down in the Sacred Masjid, so he placed down his robe, and went out to wash with the water. He found that his robe had been stolen, when he returned to it. So he said, ‘Who has gone away with my robe?’ So he went seeking it, and he seized the one who was with it. So he raised it to the Prophet saww . So the Prophet saww said: ‘Cut off his hand’. So Sufyan said, ‘You saww will cut his hand due to the reason of my robe, O Rasool-Allah saww ?’ He saww said: ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So I have gifted it to him’. So Rasool-Allah saww said: ‘So why didn’t you? This should have been done before you raised it to me saww ’. I said, ‘So the Imam asws is at his saww status when it is raised to him asws ?’ He asws said: ‘Yes’. And I asked him asws about the excusing before it ends up to the Imam asws , so he asws said: ‘Better’.

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