Thereafter, one of the Damascus judges subjected a man who sought the protection of Shaykh Taqi al-Din to a taʿzir punishment, and several others were summoned and then released. The incident caused turmoil in the city. At the time, the emir who served as viceroy of the Sultanate had gone out hunting and was absent for about a week (1) before returning.

Meanwhile, the hadith scholar al-Hafiz Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi was giving a public reading of Sahih al-Bukhari as a means of beseeching rain (2). On Monday, the twenty-second of Rajab, he reached a passage that refutes the Jahmiyyah and affirms that Allah is above the Throne. The passage comes from Bukhari’s Kitab Afʿal al-ʿIbad, and he read it beneath the Nasr Dome (3). Some of the jurisprudents present were angered, protesting (4), “He is targeting us by this,” and they took the matter to the Shafiʿi Chief Judge (5), who forthwith summoned al-Mizzi and ordered his imprisonment.

When Shaykh Taqi al-Din learned of this, he was grieved for him; he personally released al-Mizzi from the jail, then went to the palace of the Commander of the Emirs. There he and the judge argued, and he praised Shaykh Jamal al-Din highly.