al-Malik al-Adil II

Al-Malik al-'Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr, son of al-Malik al-Kamil Nasir al-Din Muhammad; his father made him heir-apparent in Egypt though he was the youngest of his sons, while al-Malik al-Mas'ud held Mecca and the Hijaz in addition to Yemen. ¹

Al-'Adil remained in the kingdom a year; on a Friday of Dhu'l-Qa'da 637 his own amirs seized him outside Bilbays and summoned his brother al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub, who entered Cairo in the second hour of Sunday 27 Dhu'l-Qa'da — "I was then in Cairo," says Ibn Khallikan — while his brother al-'Adil was brought in a litter surrounded by soldiers, carried to the citadel and detained; al-Salih later took Damascus from his hand, leaving him Baalbek, and he died in custody. ¹

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.), signed H. A. R. Gibb, describes al-'Adil II, Abu Bakr Sayf al-Din, son of al-Malik al-Kamil and grandson of al-'Adil I, born in 617 (1221). He succeeded al-Kamil in the government of Egypt in 635 (1238), but was dethroned by his elder brother al-Salih Ayyub in 637 (1240), and died in prison at Cairo on 12 Shawwal 645 (9 February 1248). ²