تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.41.1

12.41.1

In the years of famine the Sultan had ordered wells to be dug outside the royal city and crops to be sown there; he gave the people seed and the expenses needed for cultivation and charged them with sowing it for the treasury. This reached the jurist ʿAfīf al-Dīn, who said: "This crop will not achieve its purpose!" He was denounced to the Sultan, who imprisoned him and said to him: "Why do you meddle in the affairs of state?" Then after a time he released him, and he went to his house.