Editing Saladin (section)

==Family==
[[Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani]] compiled a list of Saladin's sons along with their dates of birth, according to information provided by Saladin late in his reign.<ref name="shamah">{{cite book|last1=Abu Shamah|first1=Shihab al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Isma'il al-Maqdisi|script-title=ar:كتاب الروضتين في أخبار الدولتين|title=Kitāb al-rawḍatayn fī akhbār al-dawlatayn|year=1871|orig-date=d. 1268|publisher=Maṭbaʻat Wādī al-Nīl|location=al-Qāhirah|pages=676–677|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prllAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA5-PA76}}</ref> Notable members of Saladin's progeny, as listed by Imad, include:
# [[Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din|al-Afḍal Nur ad-Din Ali]], emir of Damascus (b. 1 Shawwal 565 AH ({{circa|25|lk=no}} June 1170) in Egypt)
# [[al-Aziz Uthman|al-'Azīz Imad ad-Din Abu al-Fath Uthman]], sultan of Egypt (b. 8 Jumada I 567 AH ({{circa|14|lk=no}} January 1172) in Egypt)
# [[Az-Zahir Ghazi|al-Ẓāhir Ghiyath ad-Din Abu Mansur Ghazi]], emir of Aleppo (b. mid-Ramadan 568 AH (May 1173) in Egypt)
# [[Al-Mu'azzam Turanshah ibn Salah al-Din|al-Mu'aẓẓam Fakhr ad-Din Abu Mansur Turanshah]], (b. Rabi I 577 AH (July/August 1181) in Egypt)

The sons listed by Imad number fifteen, but elsewhere he writes that Saladin was survived by seventeen sons and one daughter. Saladin's daughter is said to have married her cousin [[Al-Kamil|al-Kamil Muhammad ibn Adil]]. Saladin may also have had other children who died before him. One son, Al-Zahir Dawud, whom Imad listed eighth, is recorded as being Saladin's twelfth son in a letter written by his minister.<ref name="shamah"/>

Not much is known of Saladin's wives or [[concubinage in Islam|slave-women]]. He married [[Ismat al-Din Khatun|Ismat ad-Din Khatun]], the widow of [[Nur al-Din Zengi|Nur ad-Din Zengi]], in 1176. She did not have children. One of his wives, Shamsah, is buried with her son al-Aziz in the tomb of [[al-Shafi'i]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Yeomans|first1=Richard|title=The art and architecture of Islamic Cairo|url=https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000yeom|url-access=registration|date=2006|publisher=Garnet|location=Reading|isbn=978-1859641545|page=[https://archive.org/details/artarchitectureo0000yeom/page/115 115]|edition=1st }}</ref>