It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no cutting of the hand for snatching, for plundering, or for betrayal of trust."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17290
Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Ibn Jurayj heard it only from Yasin al-Zayyat.
Abu Dawud said: Ibn Jurayj did not hear this hadith from Abu al-Zubayr.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17291
Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no cutting of the hand for snatching, plundering, or betrayal of trust."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17292
Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that a man named Ayyub bin Bariqah snatched a piece of jewellery from a man, and the case was brought before Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) about it, and he wrote back: Whoever robs in broad daylight, give him an exemplary punishment, then let him go and do not cut off his hand.
In another narration, a man who had snatched a piece of jewellery from a slave girl was brought to Umar bin Abd al-Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him), and Umar bin Abd al-Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him) did not cut off his hand. He said: He snatched this in broad daylight.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17293
A son of Ubayd bin al-Abras says: I was present with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when a man was brought to him who had snatched a garment from another man. The snatcher said: I recognize it. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) did not cut off his hand.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17294
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that he did not cut off the hand for snatching, and he did cut off the hand for theft committed in secret.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17295
It is narrated from Ibn Shihab (may Allah have mercy on him) that a man who had snatched some goods was brought to Marwan bin al-Hakam. He intended to cut off his hand, then he sent someone to Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) to ask him about this matter. Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There is no cutting (of the hand) for snatching.
Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The ruling with us is that the hand of one who snatches property is not cut.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Likewise, whoever borrows goods and then denies it, or has a deposit with him and denies it, there is no cutting upon him for it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17296
It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that a woman of Banu Makhzum used to borrow goods and then deny it, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that her hand be cut off. (The narrator then mentioned the hadith about the intercession of Usamah bin Zayd and the Prophet's disapproval of it,) and at its end he said: So he cut off the hand of the Makhzumi woman.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17297
Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: A woman borrowed (meaning: jewellery) in the names of people who were known, while she herself was not known; then she sold it and kept (the money). She was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he ordered that her hand be cut off. She is the one for whom Usamah bin Zayd interceded, and about whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said what he said.
Abdullah bin Wahb differed from him in narrating it from Yunus, saying: from al-Zuhri, from Urwah, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that Quraysh were troubled by the matter of the woman who stole in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) during the campaign of the Conquest (of Makkah); then he mentioned the hadith, and it has already been mentioned.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17298
Abdullah bin al-Mubarak likewise narrated it from Yunus, from al-Zuhri, who said: Urwah bin al-Zubayr informed me that a woman stole in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he mentioned the hadith up to his words: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave orders concerning that woman, and her hand was cut off. After that her repentance was good and she married. Aishah said: She used to come to me after that, and I would convey her need to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
Shabib narrated it with the same meaning from Yunus, except that he narrated its last part (about the repentance) from al-Zuhri, from al-Qasim bin Muhammad, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). And al-Layth bin Sa'd narrated it from al-Zuhri, from Urwah, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that Quraysh were troubled by the matter of the Makhzumi woman who stole; then he mentioned the hadith up to his words: "By Allah, if Fatimah bint Muhammad were to steal, I would cut off her hand." And it has already been mentioned.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17299
Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said that a woman of Banu Makhzum stole. She was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and she sought refuge with his wife, Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Allah, even if it were Fatimah, I would cut off her hand." So her hand was cut off.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17300
Sayyiduna Mas'ud bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When a woman stole that velvet cloth from the house of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), we regarded it as a grave matter; she was a woman of Quraysh. So we came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and spoke to him (in intercession). Then he mentioned the hadith about offering a ransom, the intercession and the cutting off (of her hand).
As for the narration of al-Layth from Yunus from al-Zuhri about the borrowing, only Abu Salih narrated it from al-Layth; Ibn Wahb and Ibn al-Mubarak differed from him, and their narration is more likely to be authentic than that of Abu Salih. As for the narration of Ma'mar from al-Zuhri, he is alone in it, and a group is more likely to have preserved it accurately than a single narrator. Ma'mar also narrated it from Ayyub, from Nafi', from Ibn Umar, that a Makhzumi woman used to borrow goods and deny it, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave orders concerning her and her hand was cut off. Abu Dawud said: Juwayriyah narrated it from Nafi', from Ibn Umar or from Safiyyah bint Abi Ubayd, and Ibn Ghanaj narrated it from Nafi', from Safiyyah bint Abi Ubayd.
So the chain of this hadith is disputed on the authority of Nafi'. It is possible that those who mentioned the borrowing did so to identify her, while the cutting was because of her theft that is reported in all the other narrations, so the narrations would not conflict. The meaning of the report would then be: a Makhzumi woman who used to borrow goods and deny it, as Ma'mar narrated, stole, as others narrated, so her hand was cut off, that is, for the theft. And Allah knows best.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب السرقة / 17301