Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 30854 — People whose house is broken into

Ma'mar said: Khusayf said: Some people found some of their goods missing from their house, and they saw a breach in the house. So they went out to look, and they saw two men running. They caught the one of them who had the goods with him, and the other got away from them and fled. They brought him, and he began to say: I did not steal anything. That man who fled only hired me, and he handed these goods over to me so that I could carry them. I do not know where he brought them from. Khusayf said: A letter was written to Umar bin Abd al-Aziz about this, and he wrote in reply: He is to be severely punished and imprisoned permanently, and his hand is not to be cut off.