Reason for the name
The word "Marstan" or "Moristan" in Persian is abbreviated at the hospital or "Dar al-Shifa".
Builder
Built by Salah Salahaddine al-Ayyubi.
This Bimaristan is located west of the Holy City, close to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Dabbagh neighborhood.
Current use the former Bimarstan included the bazaar market, the spot is located to its north, and part of the land on which the Church of the Ba’ath “Lutheran Church” located.
Sultan Salahaddine entered the city of Jerusalem on the fourteenth day of Ramadan in 583 AH and ordered the construction of its walls and increased the suspension of the school that worked in Jerusalem and this school was before Islam famous for the document that mention that Sund Hanah or Mary peace be upon her, Before the
Frankish rule of Jerusalem, when Al-Farang ruled Jerusalem in 492 CE, they returned it to a church as it was before Islam.
When Salah al-Din opened Jerusalem, he returned it to a school and delegated teaching to Baha’a al-Din ibn Shaddad, he ordered the adjacent marestana to be built next to his bathroom, and signed the positions and month drugs plentiful and authorized the judiciary and consider this stand to Judge Bahaa al-Din Yusuf bin Rafi Abu Tamim.
Al-Nuwairi said: Sultan Salah al-Din decided on the pilgrimage and then returned to Jerusalem and arranged his conditions and appointed the church in the street of Ramamah Al-Baimarstan and transferred drugs and medicines.
Ibn al-Qafati pointed to the Jerusalem Bimarstan, saying: the Jacob ibn Saflan Al Nasrani established in his condition in Jerusalem in the direct Bimarstan that his King Issa the son of the king just Abu Bakr bin Ayoub year 615 e.
“The city of Jerusalem is “Hara” known as Al-Dibagha, which practiced on the tongues of people, that the Bimaristan Al-Salahi was in this area, and then he realized the ruins as he realized other effects, then there was an earthquake in 863,” wrote Adel Jabr Bek, director of the Islamic Museum and Dar al-Kut in Jerusalem 1458 AD.
Made it an impact after Ain Fafout traces and the land lost and the rulers And other people selling and giving, he gave Sultan Abdul Hamid part of the ruins to the German state on the occasion of the visit of the Crown Prince of Jerusalem in 1896, where the Germans built a church opened by Emperor Gliom II in 1898 and said they found in the ruins of stones written written in the name of Salahaddine and his successors after him.
There are many doctors who served in the medical industry in the city of Jerusalem, including:
1 – Yacoub ibn Saqlan Al Nasrani, Jerusalemist, born in the holy city of Jerusalem, read wisdom and medicine and lived in Jerusalem in the beginning of the Bimarstan until his king, King Issa, the son of the King, just transferred him to Damascus and specialized in him and realized gout and sore joints kept him moving until it was said that the great King If he needs him in the matter of his illness, he will call him in a haircut to be carried among the men, and Jacob died within the year 626 AH.
2 – Rashid al-Din al-Suri: He is Abu al-Mansour bin Abi al-Fadl bin Ali al-Suri was one of his time in the knowledge of individual medicines and their nature and the difference of names and attributes and achieve its characteristics born in the year 573 e in the city of Sour and grew up and then moved and worked in the industry of medicine Sheikh Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, he Practicing medicine in the Bimaristan where he served the just king and then King Issa and then born King Al – Nasser Dawood and had a Damascus Council of Medicine and the community come to him and work on the industry and died on Sunday the first month of Rajab year 639 e 1242.
It reported that after the destruction of this Marastan disappeared facilities that deal with the poor Jerusalem, and disappeared skilled doctors from the city, one of the travelers “Barbkit” who came to Jerusalem in the fifties of the ninth century, that there was no doctors in Jerusalem at the time.