The Shiites had not forgotten that Saladin al-Ayyubi was the one who had eliminated the Daula Fathimiyah (Shiite kingdom) in Egypt, and returned to the place of the Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah. That is why they repeatedly tried to kill him, to establish the new Daula Fathimiyah. And in all these conspiracies they asked for help from foreigners and sent letters to them.
Al-Maqrizi said in as-Suluk, "In 559 H, a group of Egyptian residents gathered to appoint one of the sons of al-Adhid - the last Caliph of Fathimiyah - and kill Saladin al-Ayyubi, and send letters to foreigners to ask for help from them. Among them are; al-Qadhi al-Mufaddhal Dhiya'uddin Nasrullah ibn Abdullah bin Kamil al-Qadhi, Sharif al-Julais, Najah al-Hamami, al-Faqih Imarah ibn Ali al-Yamani, Abdusshamad al-Katib, al-Qadhi al-A ' az Salamah al-Uwairis, chairman of the Judiciary and Judicial Council, dai famous Abdul Jabir bin Islamil bin Abdul Qowi, and Wa'iz Zainuddin bin Naja. He reported them to the sultan (Saladin) and asked him to give all that was available to Ibn Kamil ad-Da'i in the form of office and all facilities. The request was granted, then the people were surrounded and all were sentenced to hang. Saladin began to oversee everyone who had ambitions to rebuild Fathimiyah Daula.
Saladin sentenced him to death and detained many people so he was advised to dispatch all troops and court employees and commanders of the Sudanese army to the highest land area. He also arrested a man named Qadid on the 15th of Ramadan. Qadid was one of the propagandists of the Daula Fathimiyah in Alexandria. "(As-Suluk li Ma’rifati Duwal al-Muluk, 1: 53-54).
Although the traitors who had held a conspiracy were sentenced to death, the foreigners still came in accordance with the results of the correspondence that had been done between them beforehand.
Al-Maqrizi said, "In the month of Dhul-Hijjah in the same year, the foreign army fleet (Imarah al-Yamani) suddenly anchored in Shaqaliah through the port of Alexandria. The person who had prepared this fleet was Ghalyalam bin Rajar, ruler of Shaqaliyah who came to power in 560 H. When this fleet of troops anchored on the dock, they took down 1500 cavalry from their warships. Their number is 30,000 soldiers, consisting of horsemen and pedestrians. The number of ships carrying war equipment and blockades was as many as six ships, and those carrying logistics and personnel were forty warships, their numbers were around 50,000 pedestrians.
They docked near the lighthouse and attacked the Muslims until they urged them to as-Sur. The number of Muslims killed is very large. Foreign warships moved slowly to the port, while there were ships of the Muslims, then they drowned them. They managed to take control of the beach and make camp there. The number of camps reached 300 camps, they continued to move around the whole country, and installed three manjans to destroy the fort. At that time Saladin was in the Faqus area and only received news about this enemy attack after three days. He began to prepare troops and open the gate. Muslims attack foreigners and burn their war equipment. God helped the Muslims with the help of Saladin.
Many foreigners were killed and the Muslims took their war equipment as ghanimah. Some of those who survived returned to sail away.
If Allah did not give His help to Saladin and the Muslims who were with him surely there would be more souls sacrificed and blood flowing. All this was nothing but an attempt to take revenge by the Shiites against Saladin who destroyed their kingdom, Fathimiyah Daula.
Al-Maqrizi said, "In 570 AH, Kanzudda was the leader of Uswan gathering Arabs and Sudanese to Cairo. He planned to restore the existence of the Fathimiyah Daula. In order to gather these people, Kanzudda is willing to spend a lot of money. The people with him were Shiites who had the same ideals as him. They also succeeded in killing several of Saladin's officials.
In Thud Village, a man named Abbas bin Syadi appeared, he succeeded in seizing the territory of Qush and seizing his wealth. Saladin prepared his brother Sulta Adil with a large force to destroy the movement of Abbas bin Syadi (as-Suluk li Ma'rifati Duwal al-Muluk, 1: 57-58).
This betrayal is not just trying to kill Saladin, but also resulting in increasingly dangerous foreigners in the Syam region. Ibn Kathir said, "In 570 AH arrived, Saladin al-Ayyubi planned to come to the Syam region to protect the area from attacks by foreigners, but it turned out that he had a problem which resulted in his desire changing. The reason is because foreigners have come to the coast of Egypt with a very large fleet, complete war equipment, and large forces.
Another reason that prevented Saladin's departure to Sham was a man known as al-Kanz, some others called him Abbas bin Syadi, a military commander in Daula Fathimiyah. He was associated with an area called Aswan, where he succeeded in influencing the period to support him. Abbas bin Syadi was very confident that he would succeed in restoring the existence of the Fathimiyah Daula (al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah, 12: 287-288).
When the country had calmed down and there was no leader from Daula Fathimiyah there, Saladin appeared with Truki's troops to the Syam region. His arrival in Sham was aimed at strengthening unity, doing good to the people, fighting people who were tyrannized, upholding the syariah of Islam in the land of Sham, restoring the greatness of the Qur'an, and eradicating deviant sects, which began to decline after Nuruddin Mahmud bin Zanki died.
On 14 Dzulhijjah 571 AH, several Ismaili Shiites tried to fight Saladin. After these people injured several officials, Saladin succeeded in defeating them (as-Suluk li Ma’rifati Dual al-Muluk, 1: 61).
In 584 AH, twelve Shiites revolted at night. They shouted by saying, "O descendants of Ali! O Ali's descendants! "They passed the streets shouting like that, by doing so they thought state officials would fulfill their invitation. Their ideals are one, so that Daulah Fathimiyah is upright again. To make the atmosphere gripping and destroying security stability, they excluded people in prison (as-Suluk li Ma’rifati Dual al-Muluk, 1: 101).
Source: Shia betrayals by Imad Ali Abdu Sami.[KisahMmuslim]
