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Death of Salah al-Din and his estate

وفاة صلاح الدين وتركته

c. 1193 CE · 589 AH

In 589 sultan Salah al-Din died; the envoy reached Baghdad with his war-standard, his horse, and one dinar with thirty-six dirhams — all the wealth he left. Egypt settled for his son al-Aziz Imad al-Din Uthman, Damascus for al-Afdal Nur al-Din Ali, Aleppo for al-Zahir Ghiyath al-Din Ghazi 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1180119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

Overview

The sultan Salah al-Din died in 589 AH, according to al-Suyuti. An envoy reached Baghdad carrying his war-garment, his horse, one dinar and thirty-six dirhams, which was all the money he left. 1

After him

Egypt passed to his son Imad al-Din Uthman, al-Malik al-Aziz; Damascus to his son Nur al-Din Ali, al-Malik al-Afdal; and Aleppo to his son Ghiyath al-Din Ghazi, al-Malik al-Zahir. 1

See also the death of Salah al-Din in Ibn al-Athir's "al-Kamil". The Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri date.

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Had participant
Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

People and things also explored

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin· Battle of Jacob's Ford

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 693
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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr.