It is located inside the walls of the Old City, to the right of the inside of the door of the tribes on the eastern side of the Mujahideen road, established by Muslims in the fourth century AH, and they made it a school for teaching various sciences and continued to receive science students until the Crusader occupation, where the Crusaders turned it into a church in the name of St.

Hannah, When Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi liberated the city of Jerusalem in (583 Ah / 1187 ad), he rebuilt it into a school for teaching Shafi'i jurisprudence, and it was named after its founder and stood by Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, where he stopped it on the Shafi'i jurists in (588 Ah / 1192 ad) in the name of Allah, the Merciful, the merciful and with what kind of blessing from Allah " this blessed school, was stood by our Mawlana King Nasser Salah Sultan of Islam and Muslims, Abu al-Muzaffar Yusuf bin Ayyub Imam Abu Abdullah Muhammad Bin Idris al-Shafi'i (may Allaah be pleased with him) in the eighty-eighth year, the school of validity is considered one of the oldest and most important scientific schools In Jerusalem, it continued to perform its scientific career for a continuous period of centuries since its foundation until the late eighteenth century AD, wasn't it the first higher education institution in Palestine at the end of the Ottoman era  the Salah school had a great scientific status and was the forefront of the scientific institutes in Jerusalem and had a great intellectual role.

the sheikh of Salah was sworn by the authority of the Sultan, and the first to take over its chiefdom was Judge Judge Baha Al-Din from Shaddad .he also used to appoint in this school the science and the best teachers and jurists and taught there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries AD by scholars from the family of Allah's neighbor Jerusalem. Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi gave her many endowments, which contributed to enhancing her career and distinguishing her programs . Its sheikdom was taken over and taught by a number of eminent scholars, the first of whom was Ibn Shaddad, including Qatar al-Din bin Asaker, Wasel Al-Hamwi's son, Leo Amr bin Salah, Ezz al-Din bin Abdulsalam al-Maqdisi, Shihab al-Din bin Al-Haim, Kamal al-Din bin Abi Sharif Al-Maqdisi, Al-farqshandi, Al-Khazraji, Saadi, Al-Karaki and others, and they played a political and social role in addition to the intellectual role played by the maimonid school (Qadisiya) and the school taught the sciences of Hadith, Shafi'i jurisprudence, science, music, astronomy, Geoscience and languages and continued to do so during the Ayyubid and Mamluk eras and most of the Ottoman era until it was demolished due to the earthquake that hit Jerusalem in (1237 Ah / 1821 ad)