Volume 4, Book 56, Number 681:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The people of Quraish worried about the lady from Bani Makhzum who had committed theft.
They asked, “Who will intercede for her with Allah’s Apostle?” Some said, “No one dare to do so ex –
cept Usama bin Zaid the beloved one to Allah’s Apostle .” When Usama spoke about that to Allah’s
Apostle Allah’s Apostle said, (to him), “Do you try to intercede for somebody in a case connected with
Allah’s Prescribed Punishments?” Then he got up and delivered a sermon saying, “What destroyed the
nations preceding you, was that if a noble amongst them stole, they would forgive him, and if a poor
person amongst them stole, they would inflict Allah’s Legal punishment on him. By Allah, if Fatima,
the daughter of Muhammad stole, I would cut off her hand.”