Al-Malik al-Adil, Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub, was Saladin's brother and right hand. He governed Egypt in his brother's absences; when his nephew al-Aziz died in 595 AH he took Egypt and then installed his son al-Kamil, dividing the lands among his sons in his lifetime. He died in 615 AH at 'Alaqin and was buried in Damascus.
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al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub
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Al-Malik al-Adil, Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ayyub, Saladin's brother — the Crusaders called him Saphadin — born in Muharram 540 AH. He went with Saladin to Egypt in Shirkuh's third campaign of 564 AH, and after Nur al-Din's death governed Egypt in his brother's absences until called 'the true sultan of Egypt'; he took Aleppo in 579 AH before Saladin returned it to al-Zahir in 582 AH. When al-Aziz died in 595 AH al-Adil took Egypt and installed his son al-Kamil; Ibn al-Athir records his nephew al-Afdal held no kingdom al-Adil did not take, and that he divided the lands among his sons in his lifetime. He died on 7 Jumada al-Akhira 615 AH at 'Alaqin during the Damietta turn, aged seventy-five, and was carried to Damascus and buried at its citadel, then moved to his Adiliyya madrasa; the kharaj tables name a diwan 'al-Adili al-Sa'id' for him.
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