Sa'id bin Abi Sa'id · The Chapters on Legal Punishments

“A legal punishment that is carried out in the land is better for the people of that land than if it were to rain for forty days.”

“We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a man came to him and said: 'I adjure you by Allah (SWT) to judge between us according to the Book of Allah (SWT).' His opponent, who was more knowledgeable than him, said: 'Judge between us according to the Book of Allah (SWT), but let me speak first.' He said: 'Speak.' He said: 'My son was a servant of this man, and he committed adultery with his wife, and I ransomed…

“The hand is not to be cut off for (stealing) produce or the spadix of palm trees.”