A man who steals from the public treasury: what is due from him?

It is narrated from Shu'bah that he said: I asked Hammad about a man who steals from the public treasury (bayt al-mal). He said: His hand is to be cut off. And al-Hakam said: His hand is not to be cut off.

And al-Hakam said: His hand is not to be cut off.

It is narrated from al-Qasim that he said: A man stole from the public treasury (bayt al-mal), so Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) about this. Sayyiduna Umar wrote back to Sayyiduna Sa'd: The punishment of cutting off the hand is not to be applied to him, because he too has a share in the public treasury.

It is narrated from Shu'bah that he said: I asked al-Hakam about a man who steals from the public treasury (bayt al-mal). He said: The punishment of cutting off the hand is not to be applied to him.

It is narrated from Qatadah that it is reported from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib concerning a man who steals from the spoils of war. He said: No prescribed punishment (hadd) is to be applied to him as long as that man also has a share in them.

It is narrated from Hisham that al-Hasan al-Basri said: When a man steals from the spoils of war while he also has a share in them, his hand is not to be cut off. And if he steals from the spoils of war while he has no share in them, his hand is to be cut off.

It is narrated from Ibn Ubayd bin al-Abras that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was distributing weapons in an open ground when a man took a chain-mail helmet and put it on his head. Another man found him in that state and brought him to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). He did not cut off his hand, and he said: He too has a share in the property.