الْعَبْدُ إِذَا أَبَقَ مِنْ مَوَالِيهِ ثُمَّ سَرَقَ لَمْ يُقْطَعْ وَ هُوَ آبِقٌ لِأَنَّهُ مُرْتَدٌّ عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ لَكِنْ يُدْعَى إِلَى الرُّجُوعِ إِلَى مَوَالِيهِ وَ الدُّخُولِ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ فَإِنْ أَبَى أَنْ يَرْجِعَ إِلَى مَوَالِيهِ قُطِعَتْ يَدُهُ بِالسَّرِقَةِ ثُمَّ قُتِلَ وَ الْمُرْتَدُّ إِذَا سَرَقَ بِمَنْزِلَتِهِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Abu Ubeyda, Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> has said: ‘The slave, when he is a fugitive from his master, then steals, he would not be cut, and he is a fugitive, because he is a renegade from Al-Islam, but he would be called to the return to his master, and the entry into the fold of Al-Islam. So if he were to refuse to return to his master, his hand would be cut due to the theft, then he would be killed; and the apostate, when he steals is at his status’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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