According to one version, one night, Saladin's guards noticed a spark glowing down the hill of Masyaf and then vanishing among the Ayyubid tents. Saladin awoke from his sleep to find a figure leaving the tent. He saw that the lamps in his tent were displaced and beside his bed laid hot scones of the shape peculiar to the Assassins with a note at the top pinned by a poisoned dagger.
One night, Saladin's sentries detected a glowing ember on the hill of Masyaf, which vanished among the Ayyubid pavilions. Saladin woke up to find an enigmatic figure exiting his tent and observed that his lanterns were out of place and beside his bed lay peculiar scones, typical of the Assassins, with a note at the top secured by a poisoned knife.