The wars of Saladin Abi Abdullah ibn Hamid

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Isma‘il ibn Khalid al-Tirmidhi was one of the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah and a leading figure of Sunni Sufism in the third century AH. Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami described him as “one of the foremost shaykhs of Khurasan, the purest of them in character and the best of them in conduct.” He met a number of shaykhs in Balkh, among them Ahmad ibn Khidruya and others, and he transmitted Prophetic hadith

The book covers an important phase in the history of the Crusades, when Sultan Saladin (Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi) founded the kingdom that united Egypt, the Levant and other lands. The kingdom’s efforts and capabilities succeeded in dealing a crushing blow to the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin, and after more than ninety years of occupation, the Muslims recovered Jerusalem and wrested it from the hands of the Crusader mercenaries