Al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf bin Ayyub bin Shadi bin Marwan, Abu al-Muzaffar al-Ayyubi (1138-1193 AD), Sultan of Egypt and founder of the Ayyubid state. He was known in history books in the East and West as a noble knight and a leader among the best known to mankind, and his enemies from the Crusaders before him attested to his morals. To his friends and biographers, he is a unique example of a giant figure created by Islam, who liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders and hero of the Battle of Hattin.
Saladin was influenced by the courage of his uncle, Asad al-Din, and learned from him to fight battles and lead men. Saladin eliminated the Fatimid state, and ordered preachers to deliver sermons in mosques in the name of the Abbasid Caliph residing in Baghdad. He ordered the opening of the safes of the Fatimid Caliph's palace, which contained what the Fatimid caliphs had collected and what they had inherited.
As for the wealth that Saladin discovered in those treasuries, historians have unanimously agreed that it cannot be counted... Egypt was the richest land in the Arabs and Islam... rich in resources, its sultans drowned in prosperity... The Caliph's palace consisted of thousands of rooms, and its gate was made of Pure gold, it opens to a foyer topped by a gold throne studded with precious stones, surrounded by marble columns and ornate ebony furniture, inlaid with precious gems. Saladin did not take for himself any of that wealth, not a single precious stone, not even a single dinar.