الكافي- ط الاسلامية, volume 7, page 232

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus, from Abdullah Bin Sinan who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah asws about the child who steals. He asws said: ‘He would be excused from it once, and twice, and he would be rebuked during the third. So if he repeats, a bit of his finger would be cut. So if he repeats, lower than that would be cut’.

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

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Safwan, from Al A’ala Bin Razeyn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam asws ), said, ‘I asked him asws about the child who steals. He asws said: ‘When he steals once and he is small, he would be excused from it. So if he repeats, he would be excused from it. So if he repeats, his fingertip would be cut. So if he repeats, he would be cut lower than that’.

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

From him, from Safwan, from Is’haq Bin Ammar, said, ‘I said to Abu Ibrahim asws (7 th Imam asws ), ‘The children, when they came with them, Ali asws cut their fingertips from where did he asws cut?’ So he asws said: ‘From the joints, the joints of the fingertips’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammad Bin Usman, from Al Halby, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘When the child steals, he would be excused from it. So if he repeats, he is rebuked. So if he repeats, the ends of the fingers are cut. So if he repeats, he would be cut lower than that’. And he asws said: ‘They came to Ali asws with a boy, there was doubt with regards to him having bed-wetted yet. So he asws cut the ends of the fingers’.

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

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘They came to Ali asws with an unmarried girl who had stolen. So he asws lashed her with a whip and did not cut her’.

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