Muntakhab al-tawarikh 123.4

123.4

Now do you take this to Shaikh Bahā’u-’d-dīn, who is an accepted mufti, and say to him that my excuse of lack of books of reference, owing to my being on a journey, is perfectly comprehensible, but that, as to the tradition on which he has authenticated that (other) fatwa, it will be well if he sends me his original authenticated fatwa”; and say to him further, “The long and the short of the matter is that you have delivered a fatwa authorizing men to sell their children, when impelled thereto by hunger.