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bayhaqi:17273Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū Bakr b. Bālawayh > ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal from my father > Rawḥ b. ʿUbādah > Shuʿbah > al-Masʿūdī > al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman from his father > ʿAlī

[Machine] Ali cut off a thief, so they passed by him with his hand hanging around his neck.  

البيهقي:١٧٢٧٣أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ بَالَوَيْهِ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا رَوْحُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيِّ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ قَطَعَ سَارِقًا فَمَرُّوا بِهِ وَيَدُهُ مُعَلَّقَةٌ فِي عُنُقِهِ