What constitutes sufficient safeguarding (Hirz) for vegetables (baql) and cooking pots?

Chapter on Amputation in Theft

Al-Mughni

Book of Ḥudūd (Prescribed Penalties)

Book 51 · Issue 1 · Bab 2

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Vegetables and cooking pots, such as those used for beans (baqila), require safeguarding by enclosure using reeds (shara'ih) or wood if they are kept in the marketplace and a guard is present. Safeguarding for wood, firewood, and reeds requires enclosure in sheds, stacking them upon one another, and binding them with a rope, provided this method is customary and makes unauthorized taking difficult. If these items are kept in a locked inn (funduq), they are considered safeguarded even without being tied or bound.