The ruling on one who steals in childhood and disciplining the young child
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The questioner:
This is a child who stole when he was young; he was eight years old. He says: I stole some things from the bathroom. Now he is old and says: What should I do?
The Shaykh:
He owes nothing. If it has a value, he gives them its value. If the value is trivial, he owes nothing. And if it has a value and he knows them, he gives it to them, or he donates it to them as he knows. And if the value is trivial, the matter is easy.
The questioner:
To the public sphere? If his case reaches the point of stealing pigeons and chickens, and so on
The Shaykh:
There is specific discipline, a particular form of discipline from his father or from others, by which they discipline him for his theft, even if he steals from the people of his household, they discipline him so that he does not become accustomed to this, a deficient form of discipline, just as one disciplines a child who abandons prayer and is ten years old,
The questioner:
the pillars if he is in custody.
The Shaykh:
Rather, if the pebbles and the dates are in a secure place and reach the threshold for theft, the punishment is carried out on him, if he took from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and it reaches the threshold, the punishment is carried out on him,
This is a child who stole when he was young; he was eight years old. He says: I stole some things from the bathroom. Now he is old and says: What should I do?
The Shaykh:
He owes nothing. If it has a value, he gives them its value. If the value is trivial, he owes nothing. And if it has a value and he knows them, he gives it to them, or he donates it to them as he knows. And if the value is trivial, the matter is easy.
The questioner:
To the public sphere? If his case reaches the point of stealing pigeons and chickens, and so on
The Shaykh:
There is specific discipline, a particular form of discipline from his father or from others, by which they discipline him for his theft, even if he steals from the people of his household, they discipline him so that he does not become accustomed to this, a deficient form of discipline, just as one disciplines a child who abandons prayer and is ten years old,
The questioner:
the pillars if he is in custody.
The Shaykh:
Rather, if the pebbles and the dates are in a secure place and reach the threshold for theft, the punishment is carried out on him, if he took from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and if he took the dates from the secure place, and it reaches the threshold, the punishment is carried out on him,
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، باب حد السرقة — islamhouse.com (19:51)
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