Shaykh ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Barzali said:

At times the man whose neck was severed even outstripped those companions in sheer unbelief, in trifling with the religion of Islam, and in showing contempt for prophethood and for the Quran.

He continued:

Scholars, dignitaries, and leading state officials were present at his execution.

He went on to say:

At the outset of his career this man had memorised al-Tanbīh and would take part in the communal completion of the Quran with a pleasing voice. He was keen-witted and intelligent, and he drew a stipend (1) from the madrasahs and turab (mausoleum-lodges). Later he cast all of that aside, and his death was a source of honour for Islam and humiliation for the heretics and innovators.

I add:

I witnessed his execution, and our teacher Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn Taymiyyah was present that day. The man had come to him earlier, and Ibn Taymiyyah had rebuked and alarmed him for what he used to say. Then his neck was struck, and I saw it with my own eyes.

In Rabīʿ al-Awwal an edict was issued to expel the dogs from Damascus. They were driven into the moat outside Bāb al-Ṣaghīr on the side of Bāb Sharqī, males in one place and females in another. Shopkeepers were charged with the task, and the authorities enforced the measure strictly for several days.

Also in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, Shaykh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī, the répétiteur of the Bādirāʾiyyah (2), was appointed shaykh of the Ṣalāḥiyyah in the Holy Jerusalem and travelled there.

In Jumādā al-Ākhirah Qarṭay was removed from the deputy-governorship (3) of Tripoli and Ṭaynal (4) was appointed in his place, while Qarṭay was left in charge of the Qaramanī bread endowment in Damascus because Qaramanī was imprisoned in the Citadel of Damascus.

Al-Barzali states:

On Monday afternoon, the sixteenth (5) of Shaʿbān, the eminent scholar Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Taymiyyah was arrested in the Citadel of Damascus. Acting on the orders of the deputy of the sultanate, Tankiz, the superintendent of the religious endowments and Ibn al-Khaṭīrī, one of the chamberlains of Damascus, came to him, informed him of the sultan’s directive, and brought a mount for him to ride. He showed joy and gladness, saying, “I had been expecting this; in it there is much good and great benefit.” They all rode from his house to the Citadel gate. A hall was cleared for him, water was brought in, and he was ordered to reside there. His brother Zayn al-Dīn (6) remained with him to serve him by the sultan’s permission, and provisions sufficient for his upkeep were allotted.

Al-Barzali adds:

On Friday, the tenth of that same month, the sultanic decree that had arrived was read aloud in the Great Mosque of Damascus