He remained there, and Qutb al-Din, the son of Shaykh al-Salamiyya, assumed exclusive oversight of the Army Bureau in Damascus, as was his custom.

In Shawwal robes of honour were bestowed upon Amin al-Mulk in Egypt, and he was appointed supervisor of the state bureaux. He exercised the office for one month and two days, after which he was dismissed.

[Account of the death of Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya
(may Allah be pleased with him)]

Shaykh ʿIlm al-Din al-Barzali states in his Chronicle:

On the night of Monday, the twentieth of Dhu al-Qaʿda, the shaykh, imam, erudite scholar, jurist, ḥadith-master, ascetic exemplar—Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din Abu al-ʿAbbas Aḥmad, son of our shaykh the imam, scholar and mufti Shihab al-Din Abu al-Maḥāsin ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm, son of the imam, Shaykh al-Islam Abu al-Barakāt ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Taymiyya al-Ḥarrānī, later of Damascus—died in the Citadel of Damascus, in the very hall where he had been imprisoned. A great multitude came to the citadel and were granted permission to enter. A group sat beside him before the washing, recited the Quran, and sought blessing by gazing at him and kissing him; then they departed. A group of women then entered, did likewise, and withdrew, leaving only those charged with washing him. When the washing was complete he was brought out, and (1) crowds had already filled the citadel, the road to the mosque, the mosque itself, its courtyard, the Kallāsa, Bāb al-Barīd, Bāb al-Sāʿāt, all the way to Bāb al-Labbādīn and the Fountain.

The bier arrived at the mosque in the fourth hour of the day, or thereabouts, and was set down inside. The soldiers [had surrounded it] (2) to protect it from the press of the crowd. The first funeral prayer was performed for him in the citadel, led by Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Tammām (3). A second prayer was offered for him in the Umayyad Mosque immediately after the Ẓuhr prayer, by which time the gathering had multiplied far beyond what has already been described. The crowd continued to swell until the plazas, lanes, and markets were packed with their inhabitants and those who had flocked to them. After the prayer he was carried aloft upon heads and hands; the bier emerged through Bāb al-Barīd amid intense jostling. Voices rose with weeping and wailing, prayers for mercy upon him, praise, and supplication. People threw their kerchiefs, turbans, and garments over the bier; sandals, clogs, kerchiefs, and turbans fell from the people’s feet and heads, yet none paid them any heed, being wholly absorbed in the sight of the funeral. The bier, borne on the heads of the people, would at times advance, at times fall back, and at times halt until the throng could pass.

The people poured out of all the mosque gates, each one more crowded than the next, and then through every gate of the city, so great was the crush—though the greatest congestion was at four gates: Bāb al-Faraj, from which the bier emerged, Bāb al-Farādis, Bāb al-Naṣr, and Bāb al-Jābiya. Matters became especially severe in the Horse Market as the crowds multiplied. There the bier was set down, and his brother Zayn al-Din ʿAbd al-Raḥmān stepped forward to lead the funeral prayer; when the prayer was concluded he was borne away.