Muwatta 2418

Malik transmits from Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim, from his father, that a man from Yemen, whose hand and foot had been cut off, came and stayed with Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may God be pleased with him), and complained to him that the governor of Yemen had wronged him. He used to pray at night, and Abu Bakr would say: by your father, your night is not a thief's night. Then a necklace of Asma bint Umays, wife of Abu Bakr, was lost. The man kept going around with them, saying: O God, bring down on those who spent the night against this good household. They found the jewellery with a goldsmith, who claimed the amputee had brought it to him; the amputee confessed, or it was testified against him. Abu Bakr ordered his left hand cut off, and said: by God, his supplication against himself is more grievous to me than his theft. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prescribed Punishments (hudud). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Asma bint Umays, Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim. Built on in the chapters on amputation of the hand (qat al-yad).