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At an early age, Ibn Shaddad lost his father and he was raised by his maternal uncles the Banu Shaddad, from whom he got his name 'Ibn Shaddad'. [5] About 1173, he returned to Mosul as mudarris ("professor"). [4] In 1188, returning from Hajj, ibn Shaddād was summoned by Saladin who had read and been impressed by his writings. [4]
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
William of Tyre and Ernoul attributed the victory to the king, but Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad and other Muslim authors recorded that Raynald was the supreme commander. [71] Saladin himself referred to the battle as a "major defeat which God mended with the famous battle of Hattin", [72] according to Baha ad-Din. [73]
According to Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (one of Saladin's contemporary biographers), Saladin was a pious Muslim—he loved hearing Quran recitals, prayed punctually, and "hated the philosophers, those that denied God's attributes, the materialists and those who stubbornly rejected the Holy Law."
Baha al-Din Qaraqush (died 1201), military commander under Saladin; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145–1234), jurist and scholar, biographer of Saladin; Baha-ud-din Zakariya (c. 1170 – 1268), Sufi teacher; Baha' al-din Zuhair (1186–1258), Arabian poet; Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389), founder of Sufi Muslim order, the Naqshbandi
Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, ed. D. S. Richards, Ashgate, 2002. Halm, Heinz (2014). Kalifen und Assassinen: Ägypten und der vordere Orient zur Zeit der ersten Kreuzzüge, 1074–1171 [ Caliphs and Assassins: Egypt and the Near East at the Time of the First Crusades, 1074–1171 ] (in German).
Ibn Shaddad can refer to: Abd al-Aziz ibn Shaddad, 12th-century Zirid chronicler; Antarah ibn Shaddad (fl. 580), pre-Islamic Arab hero and poet; Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, 12th-century jurist and biographer of Saladin; Izz al-Din ibn Shaddad, 13th-century geographer and historian; Muhammad ibn Shaddad (died 971), founder of the Kurdish Shaddadid ...
Ibn Al-Athir describes the battle as a much smaller skirmish than the Latin accounts. [19] Counter to these narratives, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad's biography of Saladin reports that Gökböri was in Aleppo in the months preceding Hattin and does not mention his involvement in Cresson. [27]