# Modern standard accounts following Arabic and Latin chronicles record the 1187 victory at Hattin

Date: 1898

## The fact

Standard modern accounts, using Baha al-Din, Imad al-Din, and Latin crusade historians, record that on 4 July 1187 [Saladin](/people/saladin)’s army trapped and destroyed the Kingdom of Jerusalem’s field force at the Horns of Hattin. The dated public instrument here is that chronicle-based standard narration as current in encyclopedia and museum crusade essays. This Fact stores the battle as received, including the subsequent execution of Templar and Hospitaller captives as part of the same campaign cluster, not as a separate invented massacre statistic.

## Context

Hattin opened Jerusalem. It also produced a killing of military-order prisoners that even admiring Arabic writers record as policy. Chivalric later portraits that omit the executions are reception, stored elsewhere. Confidence is high on the battle’s occurrence in the received record, medium on any one medieval number.

Saladin is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica’s Hattin article and the Met crusade essay independently narrate 1187 from the chronicle tradition. They are not a 1187 file cabinet.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Battle of Hattin (https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Hattin; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Lethal campaign path. High confidence on the event in the received record.

Do not write a chivalric picnic. Do not write that chronicles are nothing.

## What is established and what is not

Established: received Arabic and Latin traditions record Hattin on 4 July 1187 and the killing of order brethren. Not established: a Factrail original headcount.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Hattin

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-hattin-as-chronicle-event