It is written in the chronicles that in the year of the incarnation of the word one-thousand, one-hundred, and eighty-seven, the armies of Ṣalāḥ al-Dunyā wa’l-Dīn Abul-Muẓaffar Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb ibn Shādī, Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, entered the lands of the Kingdom of Jerusalem …