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4901. It was narrated from 'Aishah that a woman stole at the time of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and they said: "We cannot speak to him concerning her; there is no one who can speak to him except his beloved, Usāmah." So he spoke to him, and he said: "O Usāmah, the Children of Israel were destroyed for such a thing. Whenever a noble person among them stole, they would let him go, but if a low-class person among them stole, they would cut off his hand. If it were Fātimah bint Muḥammad (who stole), I would cut off her hand." (Saḥīḥ)
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'Were destroyed': Destruction here might signify destruction in the Hereafter, and in this temporal world as well, because crimes increase if prescribed legal penalties are not implemented, and the abundance of crimes becomes the cause of the destruction of communities. Besides, disobedience brings punishment in its wake.
