In 1244-45, as-Salih Ayyub had seized Judea and Samaria from an-Nasir Dawud ; he took possession of Jerusalem then marched on to take Damascus which fell with relative ease in October 1245.

In November, Louis marched towards Cairo, and almost at the same time, the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, as-Salih Ayyub, died.

He was commander of the Crusader army that marched against the forces of As-Salih Ayyub in 1244.

On July 31, 1173, Saladin's father Ayyub was wounded in a horse-riding accident, ultimately causing his death on August 9.

From then on, he ordered prayers in all the mosques of Syria and Egypt as the sovereign king and he issued at the Cairo mint gold coins bearing his official title — al-Malik an-Nasir Yusuf Ayyub, ala ghaya " the King Strong to Aid, Joseph son of Job ; exalted be the standard.

Richard of Cornwall, brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between Templars and Hospitallers, whose rivalry imperiled the treaty guaranteeing regional stability stipulated with the Egyptian Sultan As-Salih Ayyub, managed to impose peace on the area.

As a consequence for assisting Zangi, Ayyub was put to task by the Abbasid authorities, and simultaneously, in another incident, Shirkuh killed a close confidant of Bihruz on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman in Tikrit.

In 1232, al-Kamil installed his eldest son as-Salih Ayyub to govern Hisn Kayfa, but on al-Kamil's death in 1238, as-Salih Ayyub disputed control of Egypt with his younger brother al-Adil II who had been proclaimed sultan in Cairo.

Facing stubborn resistance from the Crusader garrison, an Egyptian flotilla was sent by as-Salih Ayyub to aid in the siege and on October 24, Fakhr ad-Din's troops stormed through a breach in the walls and killed or captured the entire garrison.

Ayyub officially delegated his authority to his dead son Khalil and made al-Durr act formally on Khalil's behalf.

Their name means ' of the sea ', referring to the location of their original residence on Al-Rodah Island in the Nile ( Bahr al-Nil ) in Cairo at the castle of Al-Rodah which was built by the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub

as-Salih Ayyub was carried on a stretcher to his palace in the better protected town of Al Mansurah where he died on November 22, 1249 after he ruled Egypt about 10 years and amid one of the most earnest situations in the history of Egypt.

Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub () ( Nickname: Abu al-Futuh أبو الفتوح ) ( Cairo, 5 November 1205 – 22 November 1249 in Al Mansurah ), also known as al-Malik al-Salih was the Ayyubid ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249.

In addition, and to display his loyalty to his deceased Ayyubid master as-Salih Ayyub, Aybak made funeral ceremony for as-Salih and buried him in the tomb which as-Salih built before his death near his Madrasah in the district of Bain al-Qasrain in Cairo.

Shajar al-Durr ( Arabic: شجر الدر, " Tree of Pearls ") ( Royal name: al-Malikah Ismat ad-Din Umm-Khalil Shajar al-Durr ( Arabic: الملكة عصمة الدين أم خليل شجر الدر ) ( nicknamed: أم خليل, Umm Khalil ; mother of Khalil ) ( d. 1257, Cairo ) was the widow of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub who played a crucial role after his death during the Seventh Crusade against Egypt ( 1249 – 1250 ).

Throughout the early 1240s, as-Salih Ayyub carried out reprisals against those who supported al-Adil, and he then quarreled with an-Nasir Dawud who was reconciling with as-Salih Ismail of Damascus.

His sons al-Adil abu Bakr and as-Salih Ayyub inherited Egypt and Damascus.

Although Ayyub was Dawud's prisoner, the two now allied against al-Adil in Egypt, which Ayyub seized in 1240.

As-Salih Ayyub eventually occupied Damascus in December 1238, but his uncle as-Salih Ismail took back the city in September 1239, although he himself was detained by his cousin an-Nasir Dawud in Karak in order to prevent his arrest by al-Adil.

His sons as-Salih Ayyub and al-Adil II succeeded him in Syria and Egypt respectively, but the Ayyubid empire soon descended into civil war.

Al-Adil I (, in full al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu-Bakr ibn Ayyub, ; 1145 – 1218 ) was an Ayyubid-Egyptian general and ruler of Kurdish descent.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

* Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a Sahaba died during the First Arab Siege of Constantinople

Abu Ayyub came to Constantinople with the Arab army during the first attempted Muslim conquest of the city, died, and as his last request was buried there.

From the time of the Ayubids, precisely during the regin of the As-Salih Ayyub, the kiswa was manufactured in Egypt.

After the death of as-Salih Ayyub during the Frankish invasion of Damietta in 1249 and the tragic murder of his heir and son Turanshah in 1250, Shajar al-Durr, the widow of as-Salih Ayyub, with the help and support of the Mamluks of her late husband, seized the throne and became the Sultana of Egypt.

She was sent to Egypt by the Abbasid Caliph al-Musta ’ sim as a gift to Sultan Salih Nagm al-Din Ayyub and became his favorite wife during his aging years.

Mujahed al-Din Bihruz, a former greek slave who had been appointed the military governor of northern Mesopotamia for his service to the Seljuks had reprimanded Ayyub for giving Zengi refuge and in 1137, he banished Ayyub from Tikrit after his brother Asad al-Din Shirkuh killed a friend of Bihruz in an honour killing.

After Shadhi's death, Ayyub succeeded him in governance of the city with the assistance of his brother Asad ad-Din Shirkuh.

He was the son of Shadhi ibn Marwan, a Kurdish ruler, and was the brother of Najm ad-Din Ayyub, the ancestor of the Ayyubid dynasty.

Al-Adil was a son of Najm ad-Din Ayyub, and a younger brother of Salah ad-Din Ayyubi.

In the 1230s, the Ayyubid rulers of Syria attempted to assert their independence from Egypt and remained divided until Egyptian Sultan as-Salih Ayyub restored Ayyubid unity by taking over most of Syria, excluding Aleppo, by 1247.

After repelling a Crusader invasion of the Nile Delta, as-Salih Ayyub's Mamluk generals overthrew al-Mu ' azzam Turanshah who succeeded Ayyub as Sultan after his death in 1250.

The rival sultans as-Salih Ayyub and as-Salih Ismail attempted to ally with the Crusaders against the other.

In 1244, the breakaway Ayyubids of Syria allied with the Crusaders and confronted the allied forces of as-Salih Ayyub and the Khwarizmids at Hirbiya, near Gaza.

A large battle ensued, resulting in a major victory for as-Salih Ayyub and the virtual collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Shortly afterward, Sayf al-Din Ali surrendered his exposed principality, Ajlun and its fortress, to as-Salih Ayyub.

The rupture of the alliance between the Khwarizmids and as-Salih Ayyub ended with the virtual destruction of the former by al-Mansur Ibrahim, the Ayyubid emir of Homs, in October 1246.

With the Khwarizimid defeat, as-Salih Ayyub was able to complete the subjugation of southern Syria.

A settlement was eventually reached whereby the latter would retain the fortress, but cede the remainder of his principality to as-Salih Ayyub.

By May 1247, as-Salih Ayyub was master of Syria south of Lake Homs, having gained Banyas and Salkhad.

With his fellow Ayyubid opponents subdued, except for Aleppo under an-Nasir Yusuf, as-Salih Ayyub undertook a limited offensive against the Crusaders, sending Fakhr ad-Din to move against their holdings in the Galilee.

Al-Ashraf Musa of Homs had ceded the important stronghold of Salamiyyah to as-Salih Ayyub the previous winter, perhaps to underline the patron-client relationship.