The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.109

v3.c24.109

In 1568 a religious disturbance gave Akbar’s envoy, Mīrzā Muqīm, a pretext for interfering in the domestic affairs of the kingdom. Qāzī Habīb, a Sunni, was severely wounded with a sword by one Yūsuf, a fanatical Shiah, who was seized and brought before the doctors of the law, who adjudged him worthy of death, despite the protests of his victim, who said that so long as he lived his assailant could not lawfully be put to death. Yūsuf was stoned to death and Husain Shāh replied to the protests of the Shiahs that he had but executed a sentence passed by the doctors of the law. Mīrzā Muqīm, who was a Shiah, demanded the surrender of the wounded man and those who had pronounced the illegal sentence, but the latter defended themselves by asserting that they had passed no sentence of death, but had merely expressed the opinion that Yūsuf might be executed in the interests of the public tranquillity. Husain escaped the clamour of the contending sects by a river tour, and the jurists were delivered into the custody of Fath Khān Chakk, a Shiah, who, after treating them with great harshness, put them to death by Mīrzā Muqīm’s order, and caused their bodies to be dragged through the streets of the city.