كُنْتُ عَلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَأُتِيتُ بِغُلَامٍ قَدْ سَرَقَ فَسَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْهُ فَقَالَ سَلْهُ حَيْثُ سَرَقَ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ عَلَيْهِ فِي السَّرِقَةِ عُقُوبَةً فَإِنْ قَالَ نَعَمْ قِيلَ لَهُ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ تِلْكَ الْعُقُوبَةُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَعْلَمْ أَنَّ عَلَيْهِ فِي السَّرِقَةِ قَطْعاً فَخَلِّ عَنْهُ قَالَ فَأَخَذْتُ الْغُلَامَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ وَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ فِي السَّرِقَةِ عُقُوبَةً قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ هُوَ قَالَ الضَّرْبُ فَخَلَّيْتُ عَنْهُ .
Translation
Humeyd Bin ziyad, from Ubeydullah Bin Ahmad Al Naheyki, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from a number of companions, from Muhammad Bin Khalid Bin Abdullah Al Qasary who said, ‘I was at Al-Medina, so they came with a boy who had stolen. So I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about it, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Ask him that when he stole, did he know that with regards to the stealing there would be punishment upon him? So if he says yes, so say to him, ‘Which is that punishment?’ So if he does not know that upon him, with regards to the theft, is the cutting, so free him from it’. He said, ‘So I seized the boy and asked him, and said to him, ‘Did you know that regarding the theft is punishment?’ He said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Which thing is it?’ He said, ‘The whipping’. So I freed him from it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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