According to an-Nuʿaīmī, al-madrasa aṣ-Ṣāḥibīyyā, or aṣ-Ṣāḥibā, was built in aṣ-Ṣāliḥīyyā, on the slope of Qāsīyūn, by Rabīʿā H̱ātūn, daughter of Naǧm ad-Dīn Ayyūb and sister of Saladin and Sitt aš-Šām; she died at Damascus in 643 (1), more than eighty years old (2), and was buried in this madrasā. She was the wife of Saʿd ad-Dīn Masʿūd bin Muʿīn ad-Dīn ʾUnar, to whom her brother Saladin had married her (3), having himself married, after Nūr ad-Dīnʾs death (4), the sister of Masʿūd, ʿIṣmat ad-Dīn. After the death of Saʿd ad-Dīn (5), Saladin married her to al-malik al-Muẓaffar Gōkbūrī, lord of Irbil (6), with whom she lived for more than forty years. After his death (7) she retired to Damascus, living in the house of al-ʿAqīqī, which had belonged to her father ʾAyyūb, until she died. In her service was the erudite, the just, ʾAmat al-Laṭīf, daughter of an-Nāṣiḥ, the Ḥanbalite. It was she who advised Rabīʿā H̱ātūn to build this madrasā and to make it a waqf for the Ḥanbalites.
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1. 1245-1246 CE.
2. Hence, born about 560 AH (1164-1165 CE).
3. Not before 576 AH (1180-1181 CE).
4. 569 AH (1174 CE).
5. 581 AH (1185-1186 CE) according to ibn H̱allikān.
6. Born in 549 AH (1154-1155 CE), one of the greatest and most excellent figures of that time.
7. Ramaḍān 630 (June-July 1233 CE).
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Ernst Herzfeld. Damascus, Studies in Architecture III. Ars Islamica XI-XII 1946 (p. 1-71).





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