الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 223

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Al Qasim, (the narrator) says, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man who stole, so he asws said: ‘I asws heard my asws father asws saying, ‘They came with a man who had stolen, to Ali asws during his asws era. So he asws cut his hand. They came with him for a second time, so he asws cut his opposite leg (left leg). Then they came with him for a third time, so he asws imprisoned him for life, and spent upon him from the public treasury of the Muslims and said: ‘This is what Rasool-Allah saww used to do. I asws will not oppose him saww ’.

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

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Safwan Bin Yahy, from Shuayb, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Cut the thieving man after cutting the hand, then do not cut afterwards. So if he repeats, withhold him in the prison, and spend upon him from the public treasury of the Muslims’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and a number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether from Ibn Abu Najran, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, from Muhammad Bin Qays, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen asws judged regarding a man whom he asws ordered for his right hand to be cut. So he placed forward his left hand, so they cut it off, and reckoned it as his right, and they said, ‘But rather, we have cut off his left, shall his right be cut off (as well)?’ So he asws said: ‘His right hand would not be cut off, and his left has already been cut’. And he asws said regarding a man who took a helmet from the war booty, and they said, ‘He has stolen, so cut him’. So he asws said: ‘I asws would not cut any who is a participant in what he has taken’.

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

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at Bin Mahran who said, ‘When the thief is seized, cut his hand from the middle of the palm. So if he were to repeat, cut his left foot from the middle. So if he repeats, leave him in the prison. So if he steals in the prison, kill (him)’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Suleyman Bin Khalid who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about a man who stole something, but he argued from it. So he was whipped. So he came with it (the stolen item) exactly. Would the cutting be Obligated upon him?’ He asws said: ‘Yes. But, had he acknowledged, and did not come with the stolen item, his hand would not be cut, because he would have acknowledged (his theft) upon the punishment’.

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