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  "ar": "سقوط القاضي الرفيعي سنة 641هـ"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة إحدى وأربعين وست مئة كشف الله الغمة بأن أوقع بين الوزير والقاضي الرفيعي فقبض على أعوانه الأرجاس وكبيرهم ابن الرواس فسجنوا وعذبوا بالصرب والعصر والمصادرة ومات ابن الرواس في العقوبة ثم أخرج الرفيعي من داره وحبس بالمقدمية ثم أخرج ليلاً فسجن بمغارة من نواحي البقاع ثم انقطع خبره فقيل خنق وقيل ألقى من شاهق في هوة وكان فاسد العقيدة دهرياً مستهزئاً بأمور الشريعة يخرج إلى الجمعة سكران ويعد شهود زور يدعون على أصحاب الأموال بأحكام مدبرة وأكل الرشا وأموال الأيتام والأوقاف وحمل إلى بعلبك على بغل بغير إكاف وأوقف على رأس القلعة فقال دعوني حتى أصلي ركعتين فصلى وأطال فرفسه داود سياف النقمة فوقع فما وصل إلى الماء إلا وقد تقطع وبقي صاحبه الوزير المسمى بالأمين إلى سنة ثمان وأربعين إذ شنق بالديار المصرية وأخذت حواصله فبلغت ثلاثة آلاف ألف دينار {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}.",
  "en": "In 641 God lifted the affliction by setting the vizier against the qadi al-Rafii — a corrupt judge of forged deeds, bribes, orphans' and waqf monies, who rode to Friday prayers drunk with ready perjured witnesses. His agents were jailed and tortured, Ibn al-Ruwas dying under it; al-Rafii was carried to Baalbek on a bare-backed mule, stood at the citadel's rim asking leave to pray two rak'as — and was kicked over by Dawud the executioner, torn apart before he reached the water. His accomplice the vizier al-Amin was strangled in Egypt in 648, his confiscated hoards reaching three million dinars {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}."
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1243~",
   "hijri": "0641",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "641هـ؛ مقتل الوزير 648هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}",
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   "edtf": "1243~",
   "hijri": "0641",
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   "note": "641هـ؛ مقتل الوزير 648هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}",
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "1243~",
    "hijri": "0641",
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    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "641هـ؛ مقتل الوزير 648هـ {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج5، سنة 641)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 641هـ سقط القاضي الرفيعي بعد أن وقعت الجفوة بينه وبين الوزير، كما يروي ابن العماد في «شذرات الذهب». {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما جرى",
     "markdown": "قُبض على أعوانه وكبيرهم ابن الرواس، فسُجنوا وعُذّبوا وصودرت أموالهم، ومات ابن الرواس تحت العقوبة. ثم أُخرج الرفيعي من داره وحُبس بالمقدمية، ثم نُقل ليلاً إلى مغارة من نواحي البقاع وانقطع خبره. قيل خُنق، وقيل أُلقي من شاهق في هوة. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يصفه به المصدر",
     "markdown": "ينسب ابن العماد إلى الرفيعي فساد العقيدة والاستهزاء بأمور الشريعة، والخروج إلى الجمعة سكران، وإعداد شهود زور، وأكل الرشا وأموال الأيتام والأوقاف. هذه أوصاف المصنف وحده، ولا يقدّم دليلاً عليها في هذا الموضع. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نهايته عند المصنف",
     "markdown": "يذكر أنه حُمل إلى بعلبك على بغل بلا إكاف وأُوقف على رأس القلعة. فطلب أن يصلي ركعتين فصلى وأطال، فرفسه سيّاف يسمى داود فسقط. ويبقى الوزير الأمين إلى سنة 648هـ حين شُنق بمصر، وأُخذت حواصله وبلغت ثلاثة آلاف ألف دينار. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    }
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    "id": "event/qadi-rafii-scandal-641",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In 641 AH the judge al-Rafii fell after a rift developed between him and the vizier, as Ibn al-Imad relates in *Shadharat al-Dhahab*. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What happened",
     "markdown": "His assistants were arrested, and their chief, Ibn al-Rawwas, was imprisoned, tortured and had his property confiscated; Ibn al-Rawwas died under the punishment. al-Rafii was then removed from his house and held at al-Muqaddamiyya. He was later moved at night to a cave in the outskirts of the Biqa, and news of him ended. It was said that he was strangled, and it was said that he was thrown from a height into a chasm. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "How the source describes him",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Imad attributes to al-Rafii corruption of belief, mockery of the matters of the law, going to Friday prayer drunk, preparing false witnesses, and taking bribes and the property of orphans and endowments. These are the descriptions of the author alone, and he offers no evidence for them at this point. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His end according to the author",
     "markdown": "He is said to have been carried to Baalbek on a mule without a saddle and stopped at the top of the citadel. He asked to pray two units of prayer; he prayed and prolonged it, and an executioner named Dawud kicked him so that he fell. The vizier al-Amin remained until 648 AH, when he was hanged in Egypt, and his stored wealth was seized, amounting to three million dinars. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 215}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/qadi-rafii-scandal-641",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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