Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasimfrom his father that a man from Yemen who had his hand and foot cutoff came and went before Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and complained to him thatthe governor of the Yemen had wronged him, and the man used to praypart of the night. Abu Bakr said, "By your father, your night is notthe night of a thief." Then they missed a necklace of Asma bint Umays,the wife of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. The man came to go around with themlooking for it. He said, "O Allah! You are responsible for the one whoinvaded the people of this good house by night!" They found thejewelry with a goldsmith. He claimed that the maimed man had broughtit to him. The maimed man confessed or it was testified against him.Abu Bakr as-Siddiq ordered that his left hand be cut off. Abu Bakrsaid, "By Allah! His dua against himself is more serious, as far as Iam concerned, than his theft."Yahya said that Malik said,"What is done among us about the person who steals several times andis then called to reckoning, is that only his hand is cut off for allhe stole when the hadd has not been applied againsthim. If the haddhas been applied against him before that, and he steals what obligescutting off, then the next limb is cut off."
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 41, Hadith 30
Arabic reference: Book 41, Hadith 1534