“...pushing him away from herself. I said: ‘What is the matter with you, that you do this to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?’ The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, laughed and kept saying: ‘Leave her alone, for she does this—and worse than this.’”

I say: The narrators in its chain of transmission are trustworthy narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, apart from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Ibn Ḥibbān declared both of them trustworthy (2/301; 1/209). A number of trustworthy narrators also narrated from the former, as recorded in al-Jarḥ (4/2/161). Ibn Ḥibbān said: “The people of Medina narrated from him. His kunyah was Abū ʿAbd Allāh, and he died in 172 AH.”

Thus, on account of this supporting report, the hadith is good. And Allah knows best.

609 — “If the one who bought it—that is, the stolen property—from the one who stole it is not under suspicion, its owner is given the choice: if he wishes, he may reclaim it by paying its price, or he may pursue the thief.”