I was sleeping in the mosque on a cloak of mine worth thirty dirhams when a man came and snatched it from me. The man was caught and brought to the Prophet ﷺ, who ordered that his hand be cut off.I came to him and said, "Are you going to cut off his hand for the sake of thirty dirhams? I will sell the cloak to him and give him time to pay its price."He replied, "Why did you not do this before bringing him to me?"
أخبرني أحمد بن عثمان بن حكيم قال حدثنا عمرو عن أسباط عن سماك عن حميد ابن أخت صفوان
كنت نائما في المسجد على خميصة لي ثمنها ثلاثون درهما فجاء رجل فاختلسها مني فأخذ الرجل فأتي به النبي ﷺ فأمر به ليقطع فأتيته فقلت أتقطعه من أجل ثلاثين درهما أنا أبيعه وأنسئه ثمنها قال فهلا كان هذا قبل أن تأتيني به
[Hasan], previously mentioned, no: 4882. Abu Dawud narrated it in the Book of Hudud, chapter, Regarding one who steals from a secure enclosure, no: 4394, from the hadith of Amr bin Hammad bin Talha, with the same wording. It is also found in Al-Kubra, no: 7369.Asbat is Ibn Nasr, and Simak is Ibn Harb.