At a glance
- Roles
- emir · Patron
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Sayf al-Din al-Qaymari, founder of the maristan at Salihiyya, Damascus, nephew of the lord of Qaymar. He was among the greatest emirs, their famed champions and renowned righteous men — and it was his retinue that seized the king of the Franks on the day of the victory at al-Mansura in 648 2. He died at Nablus, was carried back and buried in his dome beside his maristan at Salihiyya; prayer at his grave is answered. 3
Connections
- Participated in
- Louis IX captured near Mansura, 648
- Died in
- Nablus
- Buried in
- Damascus
People and things also explored
Damascus submits to the Tatars, 658· Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's procession of women's hair and the march to Nablus, 606· the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 248, 269
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 248
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 269
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sayf al-Din al-Qaymari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sayf-al-din-al-qaymari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.