Muwatta 2412

Malik transmits from Nafi that a slave of Abdullah ibn Umar stole while he had run away, and Abdullah ibn Umar sent him to Said ibn al-As, governor of Medina, so that his hand would be cut off. Said refused to cut off his hand and said: the hand of a runaway is not cut off when he steals. Ibn Umar said to him: in which book of God did you find this? Then Ibn Umar ordered him, and his hand was cut off. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prescribed Punishments (hudud). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Nafi al-Madani, Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, Said ibn al-As ibn Said ibn al-As ibn Umayya. Built on in the chapters on amputation of the hand (qat al-yad).