and his relatives and companions were admitted to him, while the people crowded around the citadel gate and along the roads. The Great Mosque of Damascus filled to overflowing, they performed the funeral prayer for him, and he was carried aloft on men’s shoulders — may Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him.
Shaykh ʿAlam al-Din (1) said: “On the night of Monday, the twentieth (2) of Dhu al-Qaʿda in the year 728 AH, the Shaykh, the Imām, the erudite jurist, the ḥadith master, the ascetic exemplar, Shaykh al-Islam, Taqī al-Dīn Abū (3) al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, son of our teacher the Imām and muftī Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm, son of the Imām, Shaykh al-Islam Majd al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Taymiyya al-Ḥarrānī, later of Damascus, passed away in the Citadel of Damascus, in the very hall (4) where he had been confined.”
A great multitude (5) came to the citadel and were granted permission to enter. A group remained with him (6) before the washing, recited the Quran, sought blessing by gazing upon him and kissing him, and then departed (7).