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nasai:4949 – Qutaybah > Jarīr > Manṣūr > ʿAṭāʾ And Mujāhid > Ayman

"The (hand of) a thief is not to be cut off for less than the price of a shield." (Daif Mawquf)  

النسائي:٤٩٤٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ وَمُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ أَيْمَنَ قَالَ

لاَ يُقْطَعُ السَّارِقُ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَمَنِ الْمِجَنِّ  

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nasai:4943 – Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān > Muʿāwiyah > Sufyān > Manṣūr > Mujāhid > ʿAṭāʾ > Ayman

"The Prophet did not cut off the (hand of) the thief except for the value of a shield, and the value of a shield in those days was a Dinar." (Daif)  

النسائي:٤٩٤٣ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ أَيْمَنَ قَالَ

لَمْ يَقْطَعِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ السَّارِقَ إِلاَّ فِي ثَمَنِ الْمِجَنِّ وَثَمَنُ الْمِجَنِّ يَوْمَئِذٍ دِينَارٌ  

nasai-kubra:7395 – Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Jarīr > Manṣūr > ʿAṭāʾ And Mujāhid > Ayman

“The hand of the thief is to be cut off for the price of a shield. (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 2586)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٧٣٩٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ وَمُجَاهِدٍ عَنْ أَيْمَنَ قَالَ

«لَا تُقْطَعُ يَدُ السَّارِقِ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثَمَنِ الْمِجَنِّ»