A Cairo mufti ordered Spanish pilgrims to return into danger

Evidence

On pilgrimage, the Maliki agrees that the pilgrim has a duty to return to Spain under the circumstances described. (This is perhaps rather surprising. One feels the mufti in Cairo can have had little grasp of the realities of life for his Spanish brethren.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 357

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author’s speculation that the mufti misjudged Spanish reality is itself worth chasing — could there have been doctrinal reasons for the hard line?