وَالسَّارِقُ وَالسَّارِقَةُ فَاقْطَعُوا أَيْدِيَهُمَا
The male thief and female thief: the text prescribes a hand-cutting punishment.
The word sāriq ordinarily means a thief. Yet its application to a ṭarrār (a covert pickpocket) or a nabbāsh (one who removes a shroud from a grave) calls for further analysis. These cases differ from the paradigm of theft of protected property.
The Hanafi discussion examines protection of property, taking it secretly, the required conditions, and legally significant doubt. This is a historical example of semantic and doctrinal classification, not an instruction to impose punishment.