On Wednesday, the 9th of Ṣafar, Shaykh Shams al-Din ibn Sand (1) attended the teaching session (mashyakha) of the Nafisiyya order. He appeared before Chief Judge Taj al-Din (2) together with several notables and quoted the ḥadith of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, “There is no prayer for the one who does not recite the Opening of the Book” (3), giving its chain of transmission through the aforementioned Chief Judge.
A dispatch rider then arrived from Egypt summoning Chief Judge Taj al-Din to come there. He sent his family on ahead by camel, and on Friday, 11 Rabīʿ al-Awwal, a group of his household left to visit their relatives. He himself stayed behind until the viceroy returned from al-Raḥbah, whereupon he mounted the postal relay and departed. On Monday, 15 Jumādā al-Ākhirah, Chief Judge Taj al-Din al-Subkī returned from Egypt by the same post route; the people went out to meet him part-way along the road and celebrated his safe arrival. And Allah knows best.
[The Killing of the Vile Rāfiḍī]
On Thursday, the seventeenth of that month, early in the day, a man named Maḥmūd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī was found in the Umayyad Mosque reviling the Two Shaykhs and loudly cursing them. He was brought before the Mālikī judge, Chief Judge Jamāl al-Din al-Musallātī, who ordered him to repent and had the floggers summoned. At the first blow he cried, “Lā ilāha illā Allah, ʿAlī walī Allah” (“There is no god but Allah; ʿAlī is the close friend of Allah”). When struck a second time he cursed Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, whereupon the common people rushed at him and beat him so severely that he almost died. The judge tried to shield him but could not, and the Rāfiḍī went on insulting and cursing the Companions, saying, “They were astray.”
He was then taken to the viceroy of the Sultanate, and witnesses testified that he had declared the Companions to be astray. The judge thereupon ruled that his blood be shed. He was led outside the city, beheaded, and the populace burned his body—may Allah disgrace him. He had been studying in the Madrasa of Abū ʿUmar; when his rafḍ (Shiʿite extremism) became evident, the Ḥanbalī judge imprisoned him for forty days, to no avail. He continued everywhere he went (4) openly abusing the Companions until this day, when he displayed his creed in the mosque, and that was the cause of his execution—may Allah disgrace him as He disgraced those before him. He was killed in the year fifty-five (5) AH.