At a glance
- Roles
- Vizier · Merchant
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ibn al-Salus the merchant-scribe; he held the hisba of Damascus and conducted himself well, though people held the office beneath him — and soon he held the vizierate, entering Damascus in a procession the like of which was not known. 1
His end
Before that he had fasted and made much dhikr; once vizier he grew arrogant toward people, the amirs above all, and wronged the man who had raised him to the sultan. When al-Malik al-Ashraf was killed he was seized and his wealth and kin uprooted; a warning letter had been written to him against the "Shuja'i's bite," and it afflicted him until he died. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Cairo
- Participated in
- The killing of al-Malik al-Ashraf Khalil in 693 AH
People and things also explored
Al-Azhar Mosque· The Dar al-Hikma of Cairo· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· Capture of Cairo· death of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh — Saladin chosen vizier in his place· The great earthquake of Egypt, 608 AH· Egypt's famine and epidemic, 695· Four madhhab qadis appointed in Egypt, 663
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 740
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Sal'us, the vizier”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-salus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.