شاذي بن مروان

Shadhi ibn Marwan, grandfather of Salah al-Din. He came from Dawin, at the far end of the district of Azerbaijan, and was of the Ruwadiyya Kurds, of the Hadhbaniyya branch ¹.

He took his two sons, Shirkuh and Ayyub, to Baghdad. Then they settled in Tikrit, and he died there, and there is a dome over his grave inside the town ¹.

Ibn Khallikan says that he traced their lineage at length and found no one who gave Shadhi another father. He cited a genealogy arranged by al-Harashi that links them to Adnan, and took it to be fabricated ¹.