سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَأْخُذُ اللِّصَّ يَدَعُهُ أَفْضَلُ أَمْ يَرْفَعُهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ صَفْوَانَ بْنَ أُمَيَّةَ كَانَ مُتَّكِئاً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ عَلَى رِدَائِهِ فَقَامَ يَبُولُ فَرَجَعَ وَ قَدْ ذُهِبَ بِهِ فَطَلَبَ صَاحِبَهُ فَوَجَدَهُ فَقَدَّمَهُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالَ اقْطَعُوا يَدَهُ فَقَالَ صَفْوَانُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَا أَهَبُ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَلَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْتَهِيَ بِهِ إِلَيَّ قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْعَفْوِ عَنِ الْحُدُودِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْتَهِيَ إِلَى الْإِمَامِ فَقَالَ حَسَنٌ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al Husayn Bin Abu Al A’ala who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the man who seized the thief. Is leaving him better or raising it (the matter to the Imam<sup>asws</sup>)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Sufyan Bin Amayya was reclining upon his robe in the Masjid. So he arose to urinate, and when he returned it was gone with. So he sought the one with it and found him. So he proceeded with him to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘Cut his hand’. So Sufyan said, ‘O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>! I am gifting that to him’. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said to him: ‘Nay! That should before you ended with it to me<sup>saww</sup>’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the excusing from the Penalty (Hadds) before it ends up to the Imam<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Better’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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