al-Malik al-Muhsin ibn Salah al-Din

الملك المحسن بن صلاح الدين

1237 CE · 634 AH

Aleppo

Al-Malik al-Muhsin Ayn al-Din Ahmad (d. Muharram 634) — a son of Salah al-Din who turned hadith scholar: transmitted from Ibn Sadaqa al-Harrani and al-Busiri, wrote copiously, humble and ascetic, generous to the hadith folk, with a slight Shi'i leaning; died at Aleppo 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa · Abu Ali al-Shalubin

In space

Aleppo

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Overview

Al-Malik al-Muhsin 'Ayn al-Din Ahmad b. the sultan Salah al-Din; he transmitted from Ibn Sadqa al-Harrani and al-Busiri, devoted himself fully to hadith and wrote much — humble, ascetic, generous to the muhaddithin, with a slight Shi'i leaning; he died at Aleppo in Muharram. 1

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Died in
Aleppo
Child of
Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

People and things also explored

the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· Saladin's first siege of Aleppo — the boy-king's speech and the Ismaili knives· Salah al-Din takes the north and Aleppo in 578· Killing of Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi in Aleppo, 587· Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· Al-Farabi at Sayf al-Dawla's court· al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ moved to Aleppo — Saʿd al-Dīn Kumashtakīn seizes the regency

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 162
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Malik al-Muhsin ibn Salah al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-muhsin-ibn-salah-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.

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the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt

Saladin moved his brother al-Adil from Egypt to govern Aleppo, and set his son al-Malik al-Aziz Uthman over Egypt in his place.