Hadith record

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al Husayn Bin Abu Al A’ala who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the man who seized the thief. Is leaving him better or raising it (the matter to the Imam asws )?’ So he asws said: ‘Sufyan Bin Amayya was reclining upon his robe in the Masjid. So he arose to urinate, and when he returned it was gone with. So he sought the one with it and found him. So he proceeded with him to Rasool-Allah saww . So he saww said: ‘Cut his hand’. So Sufyan said, ‘O Rasool-Allah saww ! I am gifting that to him’. So Rasool-Allah saww said to him: ‘Nay! That should before you ended with it to me saww ’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him asws about the excusing from the Penalty (Hadds) before it ends up to the Imam asws , so he asws said: ‘Better’.

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