A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Anas bin Malik through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: He then forbade disfiguring. This version does not mention the words “ from opposite sides”. This tradition has been narrated by Shubah from Qatadah and Salam bin Miskin from Thabit on the authority of Anas. They did not mention the words “from opposite side”. I did not find these words “their hands and feet were cut off from opposite sides”. In any version except in the version of Hammad bin Salamah.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Some people raided the camels of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, drove them off, and apostatised. They killed the herdsman of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم who was a believer. He (the Prophet) sent (people) in pursuit of them and they were caught. He had their hands and feet cut off, and their eyes put out. The verse regarding fighting against Allah and His Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was then revealed. These were the people about whom Anas ibn Malik informed al-Hajjaj when he asked him.
Read More..Narrated Abuz Zinad: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم cut off (the hands and feet of) those who had stolen his camels and he had their eyes put out by fire (heated nails), Allah reprimanded him on that (action), and Allah, the Exalted, revealed: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is execution or crucifixion.
Read More..Muhammad bin Sirin said: This happened before the prescribed punishments (hudud) were revealed, meaning the tradition of Anas.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The verse The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite side or exile from the land. . . most merciful was revealed about polytheists. If any of them repents before they are arrested, it does not prevent from inflicting on him the prescribed punishment which he deserves.
Read More..Aishah said: The Quraish were anxious about the Makhzumi woman who had committed theft, They said: Who will speak to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم about her ? Then they said: Who will be bold enough for it but Uasmah bin Zaid, the prophet’s صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم friend! So Usamah spoke to him, and the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Are you interceding regarding one of the punishments prescribed by Allah ? He then got up and gave an address, saying: What destroyed your predecessors was just that when a person of rank among them committed a theft, They left him alone, and when a weak one of them committed a theft, they inflicted the prescribed punishment on him. I swear by Allah that if Fatimah daughter of Muhammad should steal, I would have her hand cut off.
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