At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
Al-Imad al-Katib, who was then in the service of Sultan Salah al-Din, reports that astrologers across the lands agreed that the world would be destroyed in Sha'ban that year, when six planets met in the sign of Libra, with a gale of wind. They frightened the Persians and the Byzantines, who dug caves and stocked them with water and food 1.
A windless night
When the night the astrologers had named came, nothing happened. Al-Imad said: "We were sitting with the sultan, and the candles were burning without moving. We had never seen a night so still" 1.
Connections
- Had participant
- Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
People and things also explored
Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin· Battle of Jacob's Ford· Battle of Jaffa
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 753
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/astrologers-scare-582/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.