16 - Chapter: What has been reported regarding the amount for which the thief's hand is cut off (1)

1511 - 'Ali ibn Hujr narrated to us, he said: Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, that 'Amrah informed him,
from 'A'ishah: that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to cut off the hand for a quarter of a dinar or more (2).

The hadith of 'A'ishah is a hasan sahih hadith. This hadith has also been narrated through other chains from 'Amrah, from 'A'ishah, as a marfu' (raised to the Prophet) report, and some of them narrated it from 'Amrah, from 'A'ishah as a mawquf (stopped at a Companion) report.

1512 - Qutaybah narrated to us, he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from Nafi',
from Ibn 'Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, cut off the hand for a shield whose value was three dirhams (3).

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= as he stated, it is an abrogated hadith, and consensus indicates its abrogation.
And Imam al-Tirmidhi, may Allah have mercy on him, considers abrogation to be one of the defects ('ilal) of hadith. Ibn al-Salah pointed this out in 'Ulum al-Hadith, p. 47.

(1) In a copy in the margin of (A), and in the printed edition: the hand of the thief.
(2) A sahih hadith. Al-Bukhari (6789), Muslim (1684), Abu Dawud (4383) and (4384), Ibn Majah (2585), and al-Nasa'i 8/77-81 also narrated it, and it is in al-Musnad (24078) and Sahih Ibn Hibban (4459).
Al-Nasa'i 8/79 and 80 also narrated it from 'A'ishah as mawquf.
(3) A sahih hadith. Al-Bukhari (6795), Muslim (1686), Abu Dawud (4385) and (4386), Ibn Majah (2584), and al-Nasa'i 8/76 and 77 also narrated it, and it is in al-Musnad (4503) and Sahih Ibn Hibban (4461).