Sayf al-Islam Tughrakin

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Sayf al-Islam Tughtakin, brother of Salah al-Din. Salah al-Din sent him to Yemen in the year 578 AH and placed its affairs in his hands, because they had fallen into disorder ¹.

In Yemen

Hattan ibn Munqidh had gained strength against Izz al-Din Uthman al-Zanjabili, who held Aden. When Sayf al-Islam reached Zabid, Hattan fortified himself in some of the castles. Sayf al-Islam kept giving him safe conduct and sending him gifts, until Hattan came down to him ¹.

He then arrested Hattan when he wanted to depart with his property and family, recovered all his wealth, and imprisoned him in one of the castles. The report says that he killed him ¹.

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.

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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt