Muwatta 2420

Malik transmits that Abu al-Zinad told him that an agent of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took people for brigandage, who had killed no one. He wanted to cut off their hands or kill them, and wrote to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, who wrote back: if you had taken a lighter course than that. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prescribed Punishments (hudud). Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas, Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan Abu al-Zinad, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz. Built on in the chapters on amputation of the hand (qat al-yad).