مَنْ أَخَذَ سَارِقاً فَعَفَا عَنْهُ فَذَاكَ لَهُ فَإِنْ رُفِعَ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ قَطَعَهُ فَإِنْ قَالَ الَّذِي سُرِقَ مِنْهُ أَنَا أَهَبُ لَهُ لَمْ يَدَعْهُ الْإِمَامُ حَتَّى يَقْطَعَهُ إِذَا رُفِعَ إِلَيْهِ وَ إِنَّمَا الْهِبَةُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُرْفَعَ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ الْحافِظُونَ لِحُدُودِ اللَّهِ فَإِذَا انْتَهَى الْحَدُّ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ فَلَيْسَ لِأَحَدٍ أَنْ يَتْرُكَهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at Bin Mahran, Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> has said: ‘The one who seizes a thief, and he excuses him from it, so that is up to him. But, if it is raised to the Imam<sup>asws</sup>, he<sup>asws</sup> would cut him. So if the one who had been stolen from were to say, ‘I gift it to you’, the Imam<sup>asws</sup> would not leave him until he<sup>asws</sup> cuts him, (after) it is raised to him. But rather, the gifting is before he raises it to the Imam<sup>asws</sup>, and these are the Words of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:9#h112"><a href="/books/quran:9#h112">[9:112]</a></a> and the preservers of the Penalties of Allah</span>. So when the Penalty (<span class="iTxt">Hadd</span>) ends up with the Imam<sup>asws</sup>, so it is not for anyone that he<sup>asws</sup> should leave him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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