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4942. 'Uthmân bin Abî Al-Walîd said: "I heard 'Urwah bin Az-Zubair say: "Aishah used to narrate that the Prophet of Allâh said: The hand (of the thief) should not be cut off except for a shield or its equivalent in value. And he said that 'Urwah said: A shield is (worth) four Dirhams. And he (the narrator) said: I heard Sulaimân bin Yasâr say that he heard 'Amrah say: I heard 'Aishah narrate that she
heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: The hand (of the thief) should not be cut off except for four Dinārs or more.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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‘Four dirhams’: ‘Urwah bin Az-Zubair was a follower (Tābi‘ī). During his time, the price of a shield might have been four dirhams. Even otherwise, shields might have been of various prices. But the shield for which the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ had amputated the hand of a thief was of three dirhams. Therefore, the scale for the amputation of hand would remain three dirhams, irrespective of whether the shield is of any price (over and above three dirhams).
